{"id":199670,"date":"2025-10-14T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199670\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:23:08","slug":"elite-madagascar-military-unit-says-it-has-seized-power-from-president-andry-rajoelina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199670\/","title":{"rendered":"Elite Madagascar military unit says it has seized power from President Andry Rajoelina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Military promises elections within two yearspublished at 15:53 BST<\/p>\n<p>15:53 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Col Michael Randrianirina (right) speaks to reporters\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/df084dbf-e3b2-413a-8039-9ba9de8bb84a.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"700\" height=\"394\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Real TV Madagascar \/ YouTube<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will form a government and reach consensus,&#8221; Col Michael Randrianirina has told reporters in Madagascar after announcing that his elite unit, CAPSAT, had seized power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked if they would hold elections, he replied: &#8220;Of course.&#8221; This will happen within the next &#8220;18 months to  two years&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The CAPSAT chief said Gen Z Mada protesters would be part of the changes because &#8220;the movement was created in the streets so we have to respect their demands&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he and his fellow officers had no choice but to unseat the current regime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is no president, there is no government&#8230; nothing here works.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Military promises elections within two yearspublished at 15:53 BST 15:53 BST Image source, Real TV Madagascar \/ YouTube&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-199670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}