Elia Ravelomanantsoa (born 1960) is a Malagasy

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and the director of Synergy-FCB. Born in

Antananarivo Antananarivo ( French: ''Tananarive'', ), also known by its colonial shorthand form Tana, is the capital and largest city of Madagascar. The administrative area of the city, known as Antananarivo-Renivohitra ("Antananarivo-Mother Hill" or "An ...

, Ravelomanantsoa set herself up in business at the age of seventeen. She founded the Manja festival of fashion in 1986. From 1990 until 1993, she was on the Committee of the Group of Reflection and Action for the Development of Madagascar. In 1996, she founded Democratic Participation for Economic and Social Redress in Madagascar. This had limited success, winning the commune of

Moramanga Moramanga is a city (commune urbaine) in Madagascar. It is located in the region Alaotra-Mangoro and the Moramanga District. It has a population of 57084 inhabitants (2018). It is situated between the capital Antananarivo and the east coast on t ...

. In 2004, Ravelomanantsoa was appointed Chair of the Global Congress of Black Women. She is currently president of ''Femmes entrepreneurs de Madagascar''. She is also the vice-president of the French ''Carrefour des entrepreneurs''. In 2006, Ravelomanantsoa became the first ever woman to stand to be President of Madagascar, when she took part in the

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held in December of that year. She took seventh place with 2.56% of the vote.2006 presidential election results
from the High Constitutional Court .

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