Former president Marc Ravalomanana’s supporters say the new law is blocking his candidacy in a elections scheduled for later this year.

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Madagascar’s President Hery Rajoanarimampianini calls the protests a coup.

He warns what he calls troublemakers that they’ll face the full might of the law.

Madagascar features in today’s SADC double troika summit in Luanda.

Political unrest that unseated  President Marc Ravalomanana in a 2009 coup, has brought the island state to its knees.

After eight years exiled in South Africa, Ravalomanana’s gone home to oppose Rajoanarimampianini.

The former finance minister won the 2014 election from which both Ravalomanana and coup leader Andry Rajoelina were barred.

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