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Haiti - Politic : Saga of the interpellation of the PM, the wire of the events 26/03/2019 11:38:23
Recall that the Senate office invited Prime Minister Jean Henry Céant to appear in the Senate to be interpellated, first on March 20 and then on Monday, March 18, 2019. The Chamber of Deputies had interpellated the Prime Minister, and his government also on Monday, March 18th, at 10:00 am Monday, March 18 in the Senate around 8:00 am, Prime Minister Jean Henry Céant was already in the meeting room waiting for the arrival of the Senators. At around 10:40am, the first roll call took place. In the absence of a quorum (14 senators), the meeting could not start. Unfortunately, after 7 hours of unsuccessful attempts to reunite 16 senators (quorum), Senate Speaker Carl Murat Cantave announced the continuation of the session on Wednesday, March 20, a decision that was preceded by Prime Minister's special request. Minister Jean-Henry Céant to call on a Justice of the Peace to make constat his presence in the Senate sitting room, in the presence of 7 Senators. While the Senate was struggling to find the necessary quorum to hold its interpellation session, the Chamber of Deputies was already ready for its meeting since about 9am. Thus, around 11am, the roll call showed the presence of 104 deputies in the session room. Following the presentation of the motion of interpellation by the Deputy Patrick Norzéus, followed by some interventions of the Deputies interpellaters, the President of the House put to the vote the motion of interpellation. This vote ended with the dismissal of Prime Minister Céant and his government; despite his absence from the meeting as well as the members of his government, by 93 votes for the dimissal, 6 votes against and 3 abstentions https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-27219-haiti-flash-haiti-has-no-more-government.html Wednesday in the Senate was to be held the continuation of the meeting of the Prime Minister despite the vote of censure of the Chamber of Deputies. This session could not take place. First, a dozen senators had sent since Tuesday, March 19, a correspondence to the president of the Senate office, Carl Murat Cantave, to express their disagreement with the decision to organize the interpellation session https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-27247-haiti-flash-interpellation-majority-divergence-in-the-senate-the-pm-seized-justice.html recalling that Jean-Henry Céant was already demissed by the Chamber of Deputies before faced this situation, the Senate of the Republic had to suspend the interpellation session, which turned into a conference of presidents with about 18 Senators. That same Wednesday, Jean-Henry Céant decided to attack the decision of the deputies in court https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-27247-haiti-flash-interpellation-majority-divergence-in-the-senate-the-pm-seized-justice.html so that he can be reinstated in his rights before resigning on Thursday, March 22, a few hours after the appointment of Acting Prime Minister Jean Michel Lapin https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-27249-haiti-flash-ceant-handed-his-resignation-after-the-installation-of-lapin.html Finally, the interpellation session scheduled for Wednesday, March 20 was transformed into a conference of presidents with about eighteen (18) Senators. See also : https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-27249-haiti-flash-ceant-handed-his-resignation-after-the-installation-of-lapin.html https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-27247-haiti-flash-interpellation-majority-divergence-in-the-senate-the-pm-seized-justice.html https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-27219-haiti-flash-haiti-has-no-more-government.html HL/ HaitiLibre
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