Editing Albert Zafy (section)

==Early political career==
===Opposition leader in the early 1990s===
In 1988 he founded the National Union for Democracy and Development (UNDD). At a national conference of the opposition in 1990, Zafy was elected as President of the Committee of Active Forces (CFV), a cooperation group of several opposition parties, including Zafy's UNDD. On 16 July 1991, the CFV declared the creation of an alternative government, with Zafy as its Prime Minister.<ref name=Africana/> Zafy was detained for a week in late July 1991 and was met with a crowd of about 100,000 supporters upon his release.<ref name=Offers>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE5DC1E39F932A05754C0A967958260&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FPeople%2FR%2FRatsiraka%2C%20Didier "Madagascar Offers Coalition"], ''The New York Times'', 31 July 1991, section A, page 3.</ref> He was subsequently wounded during a protest.<ref name=Africana/> The opposition was ultimately successful in forcing Ratsiraka to agree to the [[Panorama Convention]], which established a transitional government and stripped Ratsiraka of most of his powers, on 31 October 1991.<ref name=ISS/> Zafy oversaw the transition as head of the High Authority of the State,<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE6D7113AF930A35752C1A967958260&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fR%2fRatsiraka%2c%20Didier "Madagascar's Leader Agrees To Work for New Elections"], ''The New York Times'', 3 November 1991.</ref> which, along with the Social and Economic Recovery Council, replaced the [[Supreme Revolutionary Council (Madagascar)|Supreme Revolutionary Council]] and the National Assembly during the 1991–1993 transitional period.<ref>"Nov 1991 – New government", ''Keesing's Record of World Events'', Volume 37, November 1991 Madagascar, Page 38565.</ref><ref>[http://www.umsl.edu/services/govdocs/wofact93/wf940145.txt ''World Factbook'' on Madagascar, 1993] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023203803/http://www.umsl.edu/services/govdocs/wofact93/wf940145.txt |date=23 October 2012 }}.</ref>