Meanwhile, in Merry Madagascar...

Madagascar is voting today on a new Constitution, apparently designed to solve the country's ongoing political crisis. The draft document also happens to lower the minimum age for a President from 40 to 35.

Wonder how they came up with that number?

It will also require any presidential candidate to have been resident in the country for the last 6 months. Given his main opponents are currently in exile (and former President Ravalomanana has been sentenced to 10 years hard labour in absentia), there shouldn't be too many people left to contest the election when he does get round to planning one.

Clever stuff.