# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/desire-rakotoarijaona
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:06:22.832Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/desire-rakotoarijaona"
name: "Désiré Rakotoarijaona"
slug: "desire-rakotoarijaona"
description: "Désiré Rakotoarijaona is a Malagasy politician. He was Minister of Economy and Finance from February 1975 to June 1975. He was Prime Minister of Madagascar from 1 August 1977 to 12 February 1988, under President Didier Ratsiraka. Rakotoarijaona was replaced by Victor Ramahatra. Rakotoarijaona also ran in the November 1996 presidential election but finished in last place out of 15 candidates with 0.37% of the vote."
tagline: "Malagasy politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9_Rakotoarijaona.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1934-06-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.9
  momentum:             2.177177177177178
  historical:           12.67440666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Désiré Rakotoarijaona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9_Rakotoarijaona"
    title: "Désiré Rakotoarijaona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ντεζιρέ Ρακοτοαριζαονά"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Désiré Rakotoarijaona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Désiré Rakotoarijaona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دزیره راکوتواریجاونا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Désiré Rakotoarijaona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Désiré Rakotoarijaona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9_Rakotoarijaona"
    title: "Désiré Rakotoarijaona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "დეზირე რაკუტუარიძაუნა"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Désiré Rakotoarijaona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9_Rakotoarijaona"
    title: "Désiré Rakotoarijaona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82%D1%83%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B0%2C_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B5"
    title: "Ракутуаридзауна, Дезире"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9_Rakotoarijaona"
    title: "Désiré Rakotoarijaona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump