On Monday July 11, the Malagasy government announced the new prices at the pump with immediate effect following a meeting with the oil companies.
This announced increase of 44% on average gives a price of gasoline fixed at 1.40 euro. An increase ” unsustainable “For the Malagasy, warns the Rohy movement in a press release. The latter regrets a decision taken “ without real consultation and which only preserves the interests of oil companies.
Harijaona Andriamoraniaina is the technical coordinator of the Rohy civil society movement, which has 500 members across the country.
Most Malagasy populations, even the middle classes, have become very vulnerable, especially after Covid-19, and will not bear exorbitant increases in transport costs. […] It was necessary to increase gradually according to the real capacities of the citizens to absorb the shock […] (It is necessary) that the leaders also apply the same austerity to their standard of living […]
Harijaona Andriamoraniaina
In the Big Island, 80% of the population lives on less than 2.15 dollars a day, according to World Bank statistics.