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Haiti - Politic : The false and true reasons of the rejection of Daniel Gérard Rouzier 22/06/2011 14:19:15
The false reasons : The Deputies have motivated their decision of the rejection of the candidacy of Prime Minister-designate, by the fact that they could not be certain of his Haitian nationality, on the question of his honesty on the tax charges, on allegations of having lost his nationality and favored the interests of another country when he was Honorary Consul of Jamaica to the detriment of those of Haiti as well as any potential conflicts of interest, because its businesses. Doubts and allegations that have not yet been confirmed by facts, tangible evidence... The calling into question of the fiscal probity of the Prime Minister-designate is a blatant example of political manipulation. It was very easy for the commission, to obtain all evidence via the DGI, confirming the payment of taxes by Mr Daniel Gérard Rouzier and terminate the speculation and unfounded allegations, started intentionally to tarnish his reputation. At a joint press conference yesterday, Tuesday, before the vote in the lower house, Mr. Rouzier made no difficulty to explain publicly, in a transparent manner his tax situation, explanations easy to verify: "...Today I say before the nation that the only thing that I have is my name and my reputation. Every year for 30 years I do my tax declaration, for those who do not do it, let me explain how it works. Every month when my company which is called Sun Auto, which is based in Tabarre, pays its employees, it makes a withholding at source for the State. So when the Sun Auto has paid my salary, it has withdrawn the part which is for the State and which is delivered each month to the DGI. At the end of the year, I make my final declaration, and I submit it to the DGI, at that time, the inspector determines if the amount collected is higher or lower, that's how every year, the DGI, is asking me to pay an additional amount that is never less than 218.000 gourds. For example, last year [2010] I touched 2,915,250 as salary, the Sun AUTO has taken 517.000 gourds on this amount hat have been given to the DGI, at the end of the year when I made my definitive statement, the DGI, asked me to pay 233.000 gourds supplementary, and this is what I did on January 31, 2010. In all, last year I paid to the DGI 750.000 of tax on my wages. For SUN AUTO, between the customs and DGI, my company has paid 112,420,700 gourds and 57 cents of tax. I hope that the press will take this information and that it will inform everybody from here and abroad that there are still consequent Haitian in the country, who invest in theit country, who love their country and which have decided to live without magouille..." The vote also relied on allegations of loss of nationality due to the position of Honorary Consul of Jamaica in Haiti. Is that our members are, at this point, poorly informed or manipulated, to ignore the minor role, if not "symbolic" of a Honorary Consul, a voluntary basis function which involves no change of nationality and whose the role is more social than political and often limited to facilitating the contacts as needed. In no case an Honorary Consul can take political decisions on behalf of the country which has granted this function. As for claiming that Mr. Rouzier, would have in this function, defended the interests of the Jamaica contrary to those of Haiti, is a very serious accusation that the parliamentarians have "forgotten" to document. Deny or doubt that Mr. Rouzier, is Haitian (birth certificate, Haitian passport etc...) under the pretext of not being able to prove that his parents, at any point in their lives, did not have deny their citizenship demonstrates the intention to exclude in one way or another, the Prime Minister-designate. The true reasons : Many of the Parliamentarians, who have voted against Daniel Gérard Rouzier, have accused the President Martelly and his Prime Minister-designate, to be "sufficient and intractable in the negotiations" without taking the trouble to ensure a functional majority. The Deputy Accluche Louis Jeune [Dame Marie] has described the decision of his colleagues of "irresponsible" and reported that the members of the party INITE who are the majority in parliament, "had conditioned their vote for Mr. Rouzier, to the obtention of ministerial portfolios." If the electoral commission in charge to examining the records of deputies [and Senators] had been as scrupulous, that these parliamentarians, that go beyond on more than one point the prescribed constitutional, how much of them could participate in elections ? Very few undoubtedly. One thing is certain is that the Parliamentarians have just opened a "battlefield" which no one can predict the outcome and consequences today, our fellow citizens are at the moment, the only real losers. See also : https://www.haitilibre.com/article-3211-haiti-politique-la-verite-sur-le-contenu-du-rapport-de-la-commission.html (in french) https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-3217-haiti-flash-politic-prime-minister-designate-rejected-update-5-14pm.html https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-3218-haiti-politic-reactions-of-martelly-about-the-rejection-of-prime-minister-designate.html https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-3219-haiti-politic-reactions-of-daniel-gerard-rouzier.html HL/ HaitiLibre
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