This thesis focuses on the perspective of gender within democratization in the Global South by highlighting the mobilization of women?s organizations during the electoral campaign in the context of the 2018 Malagasy presidential election. The analysis of six interviews with presidents and members of Malagasy women?s organizations has highlighted gender paradoxes in Malagasy society where candidates use gender perspectives to mobilize women to participate in their electoral campaigns without improving their status as a complete citizen after the election. A situation that is not in line with the establishment of a plethora of legal and political frameworks of gender perspective which characterize the democratic initiation of the new states including Madagascar. Based on that observation, this qualitative study uses thematic analysis to understand this paradox through the democratization process as it favored the introduction of gender theories in the national politics of Madagascar. This thesis pays particular attention to the relationship between female citizenship, women?s organizations, and democracy to analyze the mobilization of women?s engagement within a theoretical framework of female citizenship and the concept of gendering democracy.