Madagascar's new president Andry Rajoelina Photo: REUTERS Madagascar Power Grab Denounced As Coup D'Etat By EU -- The Telegraph
Madagascar's acting president Andry Rajoelina suspended parliament on Thursday as the international community slammed his army-backed rise to the helm of the Indian Ocean island as undemocratic.
The European Union considers the army-backed ousting of the democratically elected president in Madagascar to be a coup d'etat, the Czech EU presidency said Thursday.
"This was a coup d'etat, this was not a democratic election," Karel Schwarzenberg, the Czech foreign minister, said after the first day of a two-day EU summit in Brussels.
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