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Haiti - Elections : Two reports could be tabled ! 04/09/2013 11:30:20
The Deputy Kingston Jean-Baptiste, President of the Commission, said that the commissioners had worked on the night of Monday to Tuesday until three in the morning to finalize the report and and said he was satisfied with the work done by his colleagues, he informed Tuesday at mid-day, that the report was prepared and should be signed by the members of the Commission in the next few hours before being sent to the office of the Lower House... Note that concerning the departure of the senators, the bill states in Article 244 b} "The Senators are elected for six (6) years. They take office the second (2nd) Monday of January following their election. In the event that elections can not be completed before the second (2nd) Monday of January, the Senators elected ake office immediately after the validation of the election and their mandate is supposed to have started on the second (2nd) Monday of January of the year of took office and ends the second end (2nd) Monday of January of the sixth (6th) year of their term regardless of the date of their entry on office." The new electoral law once ratified, will replace that of 2008, currently in force, confirms, in fact the 6-year term of senators but implicitly indicates that senators are still under the 2008 Act [5-year term]. Regarding the disputed article of the Directorate of Electoral Council, Article 3.1 initially stated : "The Permanent Electoral Council also includes an Executive Directorate which ensures the Executive Secretariat of the College the implementation of its decisions and coordinate the activities of other Directorates." This article has been amended as follows : "The Permanent Electoral Council includes an Executive Directorate which ensures the Executive Secretariat of the Council, the implementation of its decisions and coordinate the activities of other Directorates." An accompanying note of the Presidential Commission states : "Article 3.1 refers to the Executive Directorate that ensures the Executive Secretary of the College, the implementation of its decisions and coordinate the activities of other Directorates. Such a provision should be preferably be in an organic law to come. Tis Management College is a novelty. This is a compromise formula, established under the conditions that we know, to make work the Permanent Electoral Council. It enshrines an exception to the constitutional mode of appointment of Electoral advisers. The independence and autonomy of the CEPdo no precluding the maintenance of a Director General which, in reality implements the policy and strategy of the Council." For the Deputy Patrick Joseph, it is clear that the Head of State wants to dissolve the parliament with the support of the majority bloc of deputies pro-government "Parliamentarians for Stability and Progress" (PSP). Steven Benoit recalled that if it is not forbidden to the Executive, to modify the draft electoral law, as everyone seems to say, "nothing indicates at what level he can do it, then the Executive has done what he wanted of it. The parliament also will do what he wants and elections will be held when it pleases him." The "National Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace / Komisyon Episkopal Nasyonal Jistis ak Lapè" (JILAP) encourages stakeholders to prioritize the way of consensus, in order to facilitate the organization of partial senatorial and local elections, in the best time to avoid the worsening of the current political crisis. For her part, Marie Jonive Molière, Head of formation of the JILAP calls parliamentarians to recover, noting that the latter commit serious breaches to their role that s to control the executive and legislative. See also : https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-9362-haiti-elections-electoral-bill-passed-before-the-parliamentary-recess.html https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-9309-haiti-politic-ralph-theano-contest-the-vote-on-the-extension-of-the-term-of-senators.html https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-9281-haiti-politic-the-psp-rejects-the-vote-on-the-law-extending-the-term-of-senators.html https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-9274-haiti-politic-the-lower-house-passed-a-interpretative-law-extending-the-mandate-of-senators.html HL/ S/ HaitiLibre
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