According to local sources, there were only two power outages during the past week. What happens next? That is the question observers are asking themselves right now. Indeed, the one-week ultimatum that the president of the Refoundation of the Republic of Madagascar, Colonel Michaël Randrianirina, launched last Monday against ENELEC, expired yesterday. Everyone is now waiting to see what comes next. It should be noted, however, that since this warning from PRRM, power cuts have significantly decreased this week in Antsiranana, Toamasina, and Mahajanga. Certainly, for now, the situation has not been completely resolved, but it is clear that the warning issued by the head of state has been quite effective and has borne fruit. As for the city of Antsiranana, there were only two power outages during the past week, according to a local source. Furthermore, according to our contact, each outage lasts no more than 30 minutes. A rather tolerable threshold for the local population, which previously suffered between 6 and 18 hours of power cuts daily. It should be noted, however, that despite efforts by local officials of Jirama and the ENELEC team, power cuts persist in peripheral neighborhoods with considerable frequency. In any case, based on explanations from our source, regarding the city of Diego, outages generally stem neither from technical problems nor sabotage. Rather, it is due to lack of fuel to supply the 12 generators that the state has provided to the local Jirama. Power cuts could therefore reappear at any time in case of stock shortage or fuel supply problems. For Mahajanga, the situation has also improved significantly in recent days. It has been a week since power cuts have not exceeded one hour in the capital of Boeny, whereas before Colonel Michaël Randrianirina's reprimand, the local population had been accustomed to 'light games.' Toamasina, on the other hand, is not yet out of the woods. Indeed, for the Grand Port city, the situation is different in that the city is still in reconstruction phase after being severely hit by Cyclone Gezani. Despite efforts by Jirama and local authorities to restore electricity access, outages are still occurring in certain neighborhoods. In any case, this gradual decrease in power cuts will certainly ease tensions between the Refoundation regime and electricity supplier ENELEC. What remains is to resolve debates surrounding the revision of this company's contracts, whose necessity was publicly announced last Monday by the president of the Refoundation of the Republic of Madagascar. While denouncing collaboration that disadvantages the Malagasy people, the head of state used direct and straightforward language to ask ENELEC officials to leave the country if they did not intend to respect the terms of agreed commitments. In response to the statement from the occupant of Iavoloha, the company issued a press release clarifying that ENELEC is a Malagasy company that contributes to the country's development, notably through social actions, as was the case during Cyclone Gezani's passage. For their part, the president of the National Assembly, Siteny Randrianasoloniaiko, and the deputy for Ikalamavony, also president of the parliamentary inquiry commission on Jirama, Pety Rakotoniaina, continue to point fingers at these contracts which, according to them, were tailor-made to grant advantages to a minority and do not serve the interests of the Malagasy people. In any case, nine months after the Refoundation regime led by Colonel Michaël Randrianirina came to power, power cuts and the recovery of Madagascar's Electricity and Water Company remain very sensitive issues. Just last night, all of Antananarivo suffered a total blackout.