Madagascar’s parliament has voted to remove President Hery Rajaonarimanpianina from office.<br /><br /> It’s thought 121 of 125 lawmakers backed the move alleging constitutional violations and incompetence. His critics say he’s failed to deliver promised reforms<br /><br /> It will now be up to the country’s constitutional court to decide whether the vote can be carries out.<br /><br /> Rajaonarimanpianina took power in January 2014 after the country’s first democratic elections since 2006. It was hoped years of political and economic crisis would be put behind. ( The country had been plunged into a chaos in 2009 when Rajaonarimanpianina’s predecessor was ousted in a coup).<br /><br /> But the despite promises of economic and political reforms critics say Rajaonarimanpianina has failed to carry out his mandate and ‘although a good accountant,’ said one critic, ‘he cannot run a country’.
