Emmanuel Rakotovahiny | |
Order: | 15th |
Office: | Prime Minister of Madagascar |
Term Start: | 30 October 1995 |
Term End: | 28 May 1996 |
President: | Albert Zafy |
Predecessor: | Francisque Ravony |
Successor: | Norbert Ratsirahonana |
Nationality: | Malagasy |
Party: | National Union for Democracy and Development |
Birth Date: | 16 August 1938 |
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny (16 August 1938 – 1 July 2020)[1] was a Malagasy politician who was Prime Minister of Madagascar from 1995 to 1996. A close ally of Albert Zafy, he was the President of the National Union for Democracy and Development (UNDD), a political party, as well as the Vice-President of the National Reconciliation Committee (CRN), a group headed by Zafy.[2] On 6 October 2009, he was designated to become Vice-President of Madagascar as part of an agreement intended to resolve the 2009 political crisis.[3]