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The Constitution of 1946 granted French citizenship to all subjects of France's territories without having to renounce their personal status as natives. [58] [59] Under its terms, Madagascar and the Comoros were separated officially and classified as Overseas Territories within the French Union.
The MDRM deputies submitted a bill in late 1946 for the independence of Madagascar from French rule, but French deputies rejected it. The deputies' nationalist efforts attracted the disapproval of France's Socialist Prime Minister, Paul Ramadier, and the Minister of the Colonies, Marius Moutet, [2] who received the MDRM quest for independence as a blow to French prestige and authority. [3]
On November 22, 2010, the electoral commission of Madagascar announced that a new constitution had been endorsed in a referendum by 74 percent of voters. It put voter turnout for the poll at 53 percent. One substantive change made by the new constitution was to lower the minimum age for presidential candidates from 40 to 35.
The 1946 constitution of the French Fourth Republic made Madagascar a territoire d'outre-mer (overseas territory) within the French Union. It accorded full citizenship to all Malagasy parallel with that enjoyed by citizens in France.
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Historian Jean Fremigacci contested the 89,000 estimate, noting that losses of this magnitude normally should have manifested on the demographic curve, but in Madagascar population growth began again and even accelerated from 1946 to 1949. He estimates 30–40,000 Malagasy deaths, of which 30,000 were violent and the remainder attributable to ...
Raseta kept a low profile in the first Constituent Assembly, speaking before the Assembly only three times, during debate on a bill to determine the composition and function of colonial local assemblies, and during that of a bill regarding local assemblies on Madagascar. On March 21, 1946, he submitted a bill to designate Madagascar a "free ...
But in the 2010 constitution, six autonomous provinces were listed. [1] History. The provinces were created in 1946, when Madagascar was a French colony ...