(Bloomberg) -- Colonel Michael Randrianirina, whose army faction seized power in Madagascar on Tuesday after weeks of deadly anti-government protests, said he will be sworn in as president.

“We will probably take an oath soon,” he told reporters in Antananarivo, the capital, on Wednesday. “But that’s not our main concern right now. What matters to us today is working, solving social problems.”

The 51-year-old former nightclub DJ declared a coup was underway and took refuge after the colonel’s unit publicly supported so-called Gen Z protesters.

Demonstrations erupted last month on the Indian Ocean island nation located off Mozambique as frustration over water and power shortages sent thousands of young people onto the streets, escalating into clashes with security forces in which at leas

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