Haiti - Politic : Reactions around the designation of Laurent Lamothe
The designation by the President Martelly, of Laurent Lamothe as a possible future Prime Minister, does not leave indifferent the political class. Évans Paul the leader of the Konvasyon Inite Demokratik (KID) before this designation states remain in the uncertainty "...Mr. Lamothe has a reputation of dynamic man who succeeded in business who has shown a willingness to make things happen in Haiti. This does not mean that Mr. Lamothe will be able to do this work. The second consideration is that Mr. Lamothe enters in the same register of people with no political experience, who brings nothing more to President Martelly, who also has no political culture. The positions of President and the Prime Minister are essentially political, who requires know-how to get to manage conflicts of interest, contradictions and other... The third consideration is a legal consideration, is Mr. Lamothe met all the constitutional requirements to be Prime Minister ? First there is an investigation on his ationality, but especially is he has resided in the country for 5 years ? So from all these considerations, I am still uncertain..."
For Sauveur Pierre Étienne the Coordinator General of the Organization of People in Struggle (OPL) if INITE approves this choice, there is no problem... "...at the level of OPL we do not pretend to say who should be Prime Minister, it is the Parliament that will determine who is able or not to become Prime Minister. If the President has made that choice in consultation with the President of both houses [...] which are both under the banner INITE, from that moment, there is no problem at all..."
According to the responsible for communications of Respons Peyizan that unconditionally supports the choice of Prime Minister-designate, it is necessary that the Parliamentary pull themselves together face the demands they made "Laurent Lamothe is a choice that we support, that Respons Peyizan supports, because it is the President of the Republic who made the choice, according to the law [...] we can not be against this choice, because we already know everything Laurent Lamothe has done for the country [...] we urge the government to not make obstaclethe Haitian people, the country can not be blocked for reasons of nationality, [...] the country must continue to operate [...] we call on Parliamentarians to pull themselves together, the demands they made do not block the President, they block the people [...] I ask them to come together [...] to ratify the choice of prime minister without make obstacle the population..."
