13 days after the designation by the President Martelly, of Laurent Lamothe, the Foreign Minister, as candidate for Prime Minister, the Commission of ratification, has not yet been established.

Simon Dieuseul Desras, the President of the Senate believes it is necessary that the question of the creation of the Commission that must analyze the documents of Mr. Lamothe, be on the agenda of the session of this Tuesday.

However, the Senator Jean-Charles Moïse, who presides the Senate Committee of Inquiry on the nationality of members of the Government informed that the members of the Commission will wait to have received the documents requested to the Head of State, including his residence card and the letter from the Embassy and will also ake into account the state of progress of works on the other members of Government, before starting with the record of ratification of the Prime Minister-designate...

The ratification of the Prime Minister-designate, once the Commission established, divided the parliamentarians in the context of tense relations with the Executive. Some speculate on the nationality of Laurent Lamothe and others wonder if he has resided five consecutive years in Haïti in accordance with the prescription of the Constitution...

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-5151-haiti-politic-incredible-but-true.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-5135-haiti-politic-dieuseul-desras-frustrated-delivers-the-passports-of-martelly-to-the-commission.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-5126-haiti-politic-the-file-on-the-nationality-of-laurent-lamothe-is-complete.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-5124-haiti-politic-it-is-a-foreigner-who-runs-the-countryaccording-to-senator-moise.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-5122-haiti-politic-the-president-martelly-proves-that-he-is-not-a-us-citizen.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-5098-haiti-politic-the-investigation-of-the-nationality-of-laurent-lamothe-delaying-the-ratification-process.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-5055-haiti-politic-senators-and-deputies-present-their-conditions-to-the-head-of-state.html

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