Elia Ravelomanantsoa
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Madagascar
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politician
Politician
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and the director of Synergy-FCB.
Born in Antananarivo
Antananarivo
Antananarivo , formerly Tananarive , is the capital and largest city in Madagascar. It is also known by its French colonial shorthand form Tana....
, Ravelomanantsoa set herself up in business at the age of seventeen. She founded the Manja festival of fashion in 1986. From 1990 until 1993, she was on the Committee of the Group of Reflection and Action for the Development of Madagascar. In 1996, she founded Democratic Participation for Economic and Social Redress in Madagascar. This had limited success, winning the commune of Moramanga
Moramanga
Moramanga is a city in Madagascar.Between the capital city Antananarivo and the east coast. The name Mora-manga literally means “cheap mangoes”. The city of Moramanga has an important place in the history of Madagascar. It was in Moramanga, on the night of the 29th of March 1947 that the Malagasy...
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In 2004, Ravelomanantsoa was appointed Chair of the Global Congress of Black Women. She is currently president of Femmes entrepreneurs de Madagascar. She is also the vice-president of the French Carrefour des entrepreneurs.
In 2006, Ravelomanantsoa became the first ever woman to stand to be President of Madagascar, when she took part in the presidential election
Malagasy presidential election, 2006
Presidential elections were held in Madagascar on 3 December 2006. President Marc Ravalomanana, in office since he prevailed in a dispute over election results in 2002, ran for re-election...
held in December of that year. She took seventh place with 2.56% of the vote.