The official launch of voter registration for the electoral list overhaul took place yesterday. To this end, Ceni is calling for a civic movement to ensure a clean and comprehensive list. Thierry Rakotonarivo, president of Ceni, at Talata Volonondry, yesterday. A clean and comprehensive list. This is the objective affirmed by Thierry Rakotonarivo, president of the Independent National Electoral Commission (Ceni), during the official launch of voter registration as part of the electoral list overhaul, yesterday at Talata Volonondry. To achieve this objective, the head of the electoral body is calling for citizen engagement. "We will deploy all our efforts to ensure this list is clean and complete. However, we can only succeed if each of us takes responsibility. Ceni cannot do it alone," declares Thierry Rakotonarivo. In a thirty-minute speech, the Ceni chief took on the role of civic educator. Thierry Rakotonarivo made efforts to mobilize the audience to register in the electoral register. "The best time to do it is now. Do not put it off to another day," he urges. To register, citizens who meet the conditions can go directly to their Fokontany office. They can register when census agents conduct door-to-door visits. "An online registration request" can also be made. According to Ceni's president, the online registration request must be verified beforehand with the relevant Fokontany to confirm the person actually resides there. Being a resident of the Fokontany where the citizen wishes to register is indeed one of the conditions for being recorded in the electoral register. This census period will last four months and will end on November 25. This will be followed by a data processing process. The provisional closure of the electoral list is scheduled for January 9. The register will then be returned to the Fokontany so that everyone can verify their name, including spelling. Here again, Ceni's chief asks everyone to demonstrate civic engagement. Nationality As part of this electoral list overhaul, during this voter registration phase, Thierry Rakotonarivo particularly calls for active engagement from political parties and civil society organizations. Probably to provoke a surge of pride in these entities, he even took a jab at them. "Let each one take their responsibilities. History will be witness to it. At every election, political parties and civil society organizations are champions of complaints and criticism. We ask them to actively engage in electoral census committees, to participate from beginning to end and at all levels, and not to appear only once they have lost elections or when there are international funds to demonstrate they are working," asserts Thierry Rakotonarivo. Ceni's president emphasizes that the reliability of the electoral list is one of the pillars of election credibility. Thierry Rakotonarivo states that in 2027 the constitutional referendum and general elections will be held. To convince yesterday's audience to register on the electoral list, he stresses that failing to appear on it means losing the right to be a candidate, observer, to vote in these elections, and to contest any failures. Although Ceni's chief's speech at Talata Volonondry was mostly educational in tone, one section had political significance. This section explained the requirements for being registered in the electoral register. It concerns the condition of being of Malagasy nationality, which he emphasizes as being "the first condition to be registered on the electoral list." Thierry Rakotonarivo states: "One must imperatively be of Malagasy nationality. A foreign national, or someone who no longer holds Malagasy nationality, cannot be registered on the electoral list." Although the subject was not directly stated, attentive listeners and observers drew a connection to the case of Andry Rajoelina, former president of the Republic. The former head of state was stripped of his Malagasy nationality by the Refoundation authorities. Based on Ceni's president's remarks yesterday, it could be complicated for the former resident of Iavoloha to register on the electoral list due to the debate over his nationality. An absence from the electoral register could consequently compromise any potential candidacy.