Steven Benoit evokes his candidacy

Senator Steven Benoit evokes the possibility to be a candidate in the next presidential, claiming to have received many requests to do so, but that he has so far taken any decision.

Resignations in cascade of Executive agents

According to Ariel Henry, the Minister of Interior and local authorities, more than fifty interim executive agents have already resigned to become a candidate in the next elections including Wilson Jeudy, the Delmas mayor who intends to run a new mandate in this commune. The Minister Henry indicated that the resigned mayors remain in office until the appointment by presidential decree of their successors. Note that the Head of State has already appointed new interim executive agents for the communes of Gonaïves, Les Cayes and Anse-à-Pitre.

Andris Riché in favor to the issuance of Discharges

Andris Riché, the President of the Senate, says he was in favor that the former senior civil servants who aspire to elected office, are not penalized by the lack of the mixed commission of discharge that can not be constituted outside of the Chamber of Deputies. "If the Court of Auditors found that their management was clean, then these citizens should not be deprived of their right to run for elective position," excluding by con that it's the Council of Ministers who decides to rule on their cases.

Registration of voters with disabilities

Tuesday at the office of the Secretary of State for the Integration of Persons with Disabilities, the staff work hard to facilitate the registration of voters with disabilities, and a vast operation was launched. Mobile teams of the National Identification Office (ONI) are now deployed to the Central Office of the Secretariat of State to Nazon and in the departmental offices in Hinche, Cap-Haitien, Les Cayes, Jacmel, Gonaïves and Jérémie to assist any disabled person who wants to get his National Identity Card (CIN). This operation will continue until the closure of the electoral register, on May 11, informed the Secretary of State Gérald Oriol Jr..

Me Newton Louis and Andre Michel call for mobilization

The Platform JISTIS led lawyers Newton Louis St Juste and Andre Michel asserts that decrees will be published very soon to give discharge among others to former Prime Ministers and Ministers Jean Max Bellerive, Laurent Lamothe, Duly Brutus and Marie Carmelle Jean Marie. JISTIS ask political actors involved in the electoral process, to the Democrats and the Haitian people to mobilize to counter these maneuvers of power, by all ways and peaceful and democratic means, including street demonstrations and general strikes...

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