During his appearance on the national channel on the evening of June 26, Colonel Michaël Randrianirina, who exchanged his usual military fatigues and signature scarf for the occasion, announced a measure of "famelan-keloka" for prisoners without providing further details. What type of "famelan-keloka"? The term "famelan-keloka" is quite ambiguous, as it remains unclear whether this refers to a pardon or an amnesty. Two measures that are not quite, or not at all, the same. A pardon is issued by presidential decree and can only be applied to sentences that have become final and enforceable. A pardon does not erase the offense, unlike amnesty which, etymologically, means forgiveness. It is a measure of forgetting whose result is to completely erase the offense. It is an institution that provides an opportunity for those in power to demonstrate magnanimity after a period of severe repression, with a view to appeasement. Which of these two exceptional causes for the extinction of punishment did the occupant of Iavoloha intend to designate by "famelan-keloka"? In any case, it cannot be a classic, not to say ordinary, sentence reduction, which is literally called "fanalefahan-tsazy," whose scope of application is generally limited, particularly with respect to the offenses covered. Returning to presidential pardon, one is entitled to wonder whether the PRRM has the power to grant it, since this is a prerogative reserved for an elected President of the Republic, according to a HCC decision, even if it had been rendered by that Court in a different composition. In any case, jurisprudential reversals are not uncommon with "Fanavaozana." Like the shift in the majority in the National Assembly, which, conversely, has the power to adopt an amnesty law. Unless the field is left open to the President of Refoundation, who could grant amnesty by ordinance, in order to claim paternity of this essentially political measure.