What is Marc Ravalomanana?
{{Infobox president | honorific_prefix = [[His Excellency]] <br> [[The Honourable]] | name = Marc Ravalomanana | image = Marc Ravalomanana.jpg | office = 5th [[President of Madagascar]] | primeminister = {{plainlist | * [[Tantely Andrianarivo]] * [[Jacques Sylla]] * [[Jean-Jacques Rasolondraibe]] * [[Jacques Sylla]] * [[Charles Rabemananjara]] }} | term_start = 5 July 2002 | term_end = 17 March 2009 | predecessor = [[Didier Ratsiraka]] | successor = [[Hyppolite Ramaroson]] <small>(Several hours)</small> | office2 = 48th [[Mayor of Antananarivo]] | term_start2 = 14 November 1999 | term_end2 = 6 May 2002 | predecessor2 = [[Guy Razanamasy]] | successor2 = [[Patrick Ramiaramanana]] | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|12|12|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Imerinkasinina]], [[Madagascar]] | death_date = | death_place = | party = [[Tiako I Madagasikara|I Love Madagascar]] | spouse = [[Lalao Ravalomanana]]<br/> m. 1974 | children = Four }} '''Marc Ravalomanana''', [[Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean|GCSK]] (born 12 December 1949) is a [[Malagasy people|Malagasy]] [[politician]]. He was the [[President of Madagascar|President]] of [[Madagascar]] from 2002 to 2009. He resigned following a [[2009 Malagasy political crisis|popular uprising]] in 2009. From 2009 to 2012 Ravalomanana lived in exile in [[South Africa]]. In October 2014 he was arrested after returning to Madagascar, having been sentenced in absentia to lifelong hard labour for abuses of power. After his sentence was lifted and he was freed from house arrest in May 2015.<ref>{{cite news |last= Liantsoa |first= R. |date= 26 May 2015 |title= Madagascar : Marc Ravalomanana reprend les rênes du parti TIM |url= http://actualite.housseniawriting.com/madagascar/2015/05/26/madagascar-marc-ravalomanana-reprend-les-renes-du-parti-tim/4409/ |newspaper= Actualité Houssenia |access-date= 31 May 2015 |language= fr |archive-date= 4 March 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.o