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Haiti - Politic : Jocelerme Privert calls for political truce
10/02/2016 09:15:05

Haiti - Politic : Jocelerme Privert calls for political truce
Last Sunday after the last address to the Nation of President Michel Martelly https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-16543-haiti-flash-last-speech-to-the-nation-of-president-martelly.html , Jocelerme Privert, President of the National Assembly delivered a speech in turn, according to the protocol, in response to that of the outgoing Head of State.

Jocelerme Privert speech :
"[...]

This Sunday, February 7, 2016 has marked a milestone in the history of Haitian democracy. To some and to others it imposes a salutary halt for an examination of conscience on our responsibilities towards the people of Haiti, an uncompromising examination, without prevarication or complacency.

Day ceremony is set at a time when the entire nation is watching us and notes our actions and our commitment. Confidence it gives us is not a blank check. It is accompanied by responsibilities that we are required to do.

Each power must measure and take the weight of its powers, the responsibilities attached to it and the consequences entailed by any failure both the present and the future.

Your Excellency, the President of the Republic,

The democratic choice made by the Haitian people is irreversible. Far from being a vow, democracy has become the cement of our national cohesion, political reason which marks our dignity. However, once again, do I remember that this is to the
cost of great sacrifices that our people today manages to register in modernity, freedom and dignity. Each authority, each elected therefore has the duty to respect this choice, now printed in our values, our principles and decisions. To consolidate and strengthen this democracy, we must strive to respect the Constitution and laws of the Republic.

In my capacity as President of the National Assembly, and in accordance with Articles 134-1, 134-2 and 134-3 of the 1987 amended Constitution, I take note of your statements and draws the observation of the end of your mandate. I declare that from this moment there is a presidential vacuum.

This vacuum causes a malfunction of the executive and the resignation of the government which has no constitutional legitimacy conferred by vote of its policy statement by the Haitian Parliament.

Haitian people,

The departure of the Head of State in this day of February 7, in compliance with the requirements of the amended Constitution, does not stop insofar the march of national history. The wheel of the Republic continues inexorably turning pending the installation of the provisional president to be elected by the National Assembly.

Certainly the consensus government, resulting from the December 2014 agreements had not received parliamentary approval before or at the time of taking office in January 2015. However, common sense must agree that it benefits from the imperturbable logic of the accomplished fact, according to immutable theory of 'de facto official' since it manages the affairs of the Republic for more than a year. Pending the accession of the Temporary President, the Government will continue to operate the public administration in a prudent regime and measured of liquidation of current affairs, without taking any capital measure which commits the next government, and especially out of this appetite to sign that often assails the administrators in imminent departure.

At the National Palace empty of the presence of a head of state for a period of time that we want very succinct, the Secretary General of the Presidency will take care. It will mount a vigilant guard, soothing and wise on the People's House.

Dear and distinguished colleagues of the 50th,

I speak to you to make you understand the immensity and take your responsibilities before the nation and the world. The holding of this second National Assembly in so few days and in this particular circumstance put on your head the assignable diadem of popular sovereignty. Now nothing can tarnish or compromise or deprive yourself. No statement, no declamation, no decision, no action of any force in the world can take away a crown woven on the shuttle of the popular sovereignty. You are and remain Parliamentarians as long as the sovereign people who elected you will not choose someone else in your place.

However, the National Assembly, that this is said here and remembered by all, does not inherit any executive assignment, although in this vacuum conditions at the summit of the state remains the sole owner of popular sovereignty. It will ensure that the period of uncertainty meets the deadline set by the Agreement of February 5, 2016 between the two sovereign powers of the State. A special Bicameral Commission will be established urgently to investigate the records of applicants under Article 135 of the amended Constitution and produce a report paving the way for election procedures for the provisional president, an expeditious procedure that falls within the range time allotted by the Agreement.

In this interval of constitutional vulnerability, administrative and political, on behalf of all the legislative 50th Parliamentarians, on behalf of the Nation suffering and attentive to the next decisions of its representatives and its authentic leaders, in my capacity as President of the national Assembly invested by the sovereign people and the exceptional circumstances of a major part, if not the whole of national sovereignty, I ask the strong force of the country of Haiti, all political sectors, civil society to observe a political truce that permits friendly and serene communication between all. In this, we have helped the Republic to quickly acquire the cardinal institution of the Presidency, in a climate of calm and deep patriotic reflection in the Union that gives strength, the union that has inflated our people palmares eager for freedom and dignity of the most sublime epics of human history. So we will be given the means to cross together, hand in hand, this space of time of failure of institutional languor and make the best choices for the future of the country that we will have installed in the political stability and social peace.

Jocelerme PRIVERT
President of the National Assembly"


See also :
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-16565-haiti-flash-call-for-candidacy-for-the-position-of-president-of-the-republic-ai.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-16543-haiti-flash-last-speech-to-the-nation-of-president-martelly.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-16557-haiti-politic-towards-the-call-for-candidates-for-a-temporary-president.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-16552-haiti-politic-first-speech-of-evans-paul-as-chief-of-the-executive.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-16533-haiti-politic-the-details-of-the-agreement-from-a-to-z.html

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