Madagascar holds Parliamentary election

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Madagascar holds Parliamentary election

STORY: Madagascar holds Parliamentary election SHOOTING TIME: May 29, 2024 DATELINE: May 30, 2024 LENGTH: 00:03:05 LOCATION: Antananarivo CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of polling station 2. various of President of Madagascar Andry Rajoelina voting 3. SOUNDBITE (Malagasy): ANDRY RAJOELINA, President of Madagascar STORYLINE: The parliamentary election in Madagascar took place on Wednesday, with citizens voting to elect 163 deputies to the National Assembly. Polling stations across the country opened from 6:00 a.m. local time to 5:00 p.m., with about 11.6 million registered voters casting their ballots. Arsene Dama, president of the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI), visited several polling stations alongside international observer missions and reported that everything was proceeding as planned. Regarding reported electoral offenses, such as suspicions of pre-ticked ballot papers, he assured that investigations would be conducted to confirm the existence or absence of such anomalie

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