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Haiti - FLASH : 7 Senators attempt to cancel a visit of Privert in Panama
24/06/2016 11:44:28

7 senators Carl Murat Cantave, Riché Andris, Sonondieu Louis, Hervé Richard L. Fourcand, Youri Latortue, Edwin Zenny (Edo) and Jacques Sauveur Jean, wrote on 22 June to Roberto Zuniga Brid, Chief of Protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Panama to protest against the invitation of Panama, sent to Jocelerme Privert for the inauguration of the third set of locks of the Panama Canal, to be held on Sunday, June 26, 2016 and where are invited nearly 70 Head of States.

"[...] The presidents of the Standing Committees of the Senate Haitian signatories of the present [...] informs you that Mr. Jocelerme Privert invited to the inauguration of the restoration work of the Panama Canal, has no longer the title and quality of Provisional President of Haiti since 14 June 2016.

He has no longer the competence to engage the Haitian State. Therefore, his participation in this prestigious ceremony falls within usurpation.

Thus, the Presidents of Commissions signatories would aks you to inform the Presidents of the National Assembly of the Republic and of your country in order to suspend the invitation on behalf of the Haitian Constitution and laws.

In the hope that you will understand the legal scope of this approach [...]"

In summary senators imply that if Privert wants to go, that he do it personally and at his expense, not public funds, as provisional President of Haiti, what he is no longer.

Also let's recall that two days before this approach, in a similar strategy, but on another level, the former Prime Minister Evans Paul , Coordinator of the Democratic Entente (ED) had sent a letter to Deputy Cholzer Chancy asking him to remind the National Assembly that "The 134.3 and 149.1 articles of the Constitution in force, under the Agreement of February 5, stipulate that any President of the Republic elected by universal suffrage or at the second degree [temporary] is considered, at the end of his office, having completed a presidential term and can not benefit either extension or reappointment. If the person intends to reoccupy the office of President of the Republic, has an obligation to wait for a period of 5 years" adding furthermore "Articles 217 and 218 of the Criminal Code punish the usurpation of title and function. The authority which, at the end of his term, struggles to stay in office is in contravention of the laws of the Republic [...]" recalling that the parliamentarians vowed to respect the Constitution and laws of the Republic and therefore do not have to decide on the end of the term of former provisional President, what has been done "ipso jure" (right) and "de facto" (fact), in an official statement issued by the Office of the National Assembly 14 June 2016, noting the end of the term of 120 days, of the former provisional President Jocelerme Privert .

HL/ HaitiLibre