Hery Rajaonarimampianina (C) is congratulated after he was declared Madagascar's president-elect by the electoral court in Antananarivo January 17, 2014. REUTERS/John Friedrich Rabenandro
ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Madagascar's electoral court declared former finance minister Hery Rajaonarimampianina president-elect on Friday, an outcome his defeated rival swiftly rejected.
The ruling raises the spectre of a prolonged row over the result of the December 20 vote, the first since a coup on the Indian Ocean island in 2009, extending a political crisis that has sharply slowed economic growth and deepened poverty.
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