predecessor successor birth_place party birth_date order term_start image article_title term_end name
gilles andriamahazo albert zafy albert zafy marc ravalomanana vatomandry , french madagascar vanguard of the malagasy revolution 4 november 1936 president of the supreme revolutionary council president of madagascar 15 june 1975 9 february 1997 file : didier ratsiraka -lrb- cropped -rrb- . jpeg didier ratsiraka
 27 march 1993 6 may 2002 didier ratsiraka
didier ratsiraka

vice admiral didier ratsiraka -lrb- born 4 november 1936 -rrb- is a malagasy politician who was president of madagascar from 1975 to 1993 and from 1997 to 2002 .
