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Olivier Mahafaly Solonandrasana

Malagasy politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ23782689 ↗
Source-derived summary

Olivier Mahafaly Solonandrasana (born 21 June 1964, Nosy Be, Madagascar) is a Madagascar politician who was Prime Minister of Madagascar from 2016 to 2018. He succeeded Jean Ravelonarivo. Until his appointment as Prime Minister he was Minister of Interior.

On 4 June 2018, he announced his resignation.

He was candidate at the 2018 Malagasy presidential election but he obtained only 0.47% of the votes.

Editorial summary

“Olivier Mahafaly Solonandrasana” enters the record as malagasy politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Olivier, Mahafaly and Solonandrasana can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1964, 2016, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Olivier, Mahafaly and Solonandrasana.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Olivier Mahafaly Solonandrasana” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Olivier, Mahafaly and Solonandrasana provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q23782689. The first chronological checks are 1964, 2016 and 2018.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Olivier Mahafaly Solonandrasana” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.