Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications of electoral laws adopted by the Parliament of Madagascar in April 2018 for the prospects of conducting the forthcoming Presidential election in that country in a free, fair and transparent manner.

A comprehensive legal analysis of the electoral codes was prepared by technical legal experts and provided to the EU and its member states, including the UK, in Madagascar. We, along with our international partners, have called for the constitutionality of the electoral processes to be respected, and for the elections themselves to be conducted in a free, fair, transparent and inclusive manner.