Ramiaramanana began working at Marc Ravalomanana's dairy company, TIKO, in 1997, holding positions in management.
[1] Ravalomanana won the disputed December 2001 presidential election, and Ramiaramanana was named President of the Special Delegation of Antananarivo to replace Ravalomanana, who had been the city's mayor.
[2] He was appointed chairman of the board of the state electricity and water company, Jirama, in October 2003,[3] and soon afterward, on October 16, he publicly announced his anticipated candidacy for Mayor of Antananarivo.
[8][9] Ramiaramanana ran as a TIM candidate for a seat in the National Assembly of Madagascar from the Antananarivo I constituency in the September 2007 parliamentary election[10][11] and, along with his fellow TIM candidate for the constituency, Arinosy Jacques Razafimbelo, he won by a large margin with 61.21% of the vote, according to provisional results.
[13][14] He was suspended from this post in the government named on April 30, 2008;[15] Jean-Louis Robinson replaced Ramiaramanana in an interim capacity before being formally appointed to head the ministry in June 2008.