After the denunciation Monday in Assembly of Deputy Stevenson Jacques Timoléon [Chairman of the majority bloc "Parliamentarians for Stability and Progress" (PSP)] on the absence of a vote on Section 241 which extends the term of senators until January 2015, followed of statements of Ralph Théano, Minister delegate to the Prime Minister for Relations with Parliament, who declared "The president of the Chamber of Deputies took under his own responsibility to adopt the document," hat he was prepared to prove the absence of vote through the dissemination of videotapes of the session of Monday https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-9423-haiti-elections-section-241-of-the-electoral-act-was-voted-or-not.html ; it is now the Deputy Emmanuel Fritz Gérald President of the Commission Justice and Security of the Lower House, that confirms that there was a compromise at the level of the different blocks of the chamber around section 241, describing it as hypocrites some statements after the meeting on Monday...

To these voices, now add the declaration of former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune, on a radio station of the Capital which confirms that there had been no vote [on section 241] and also of Mirlande Manigat, who support than the President of the Chamber of Deputies has only made a political choice.

About the announcement of the vote of the Electoral Act by the Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe, in the media during his European tour, Ralph Théano, clarified that the Prime Minister was trapped "If Jean-Tholbert Alexis, President of the Chamber of Deputies, says that the vote took place, the Prime Minister can not conceive that the latter lied [...] it is not on the field to assess the veracity of this information. But us that are there, we have well found, there was no vote."

Meanwhile in the Senate, Pierre Francky Exius, the President of the Commission for Justice, said that at the level of the upper house, there will be no compromise in relation to the prescribed of the Constitution, already providing amendments to the electoral law and its return to the Lower House to be resubmitted to vote in extraordinary session, for a ratification in the same terms... Moreover he announced that next Monday, will be held in the Senate, a Conference of Presidents to the extraordinary, in particular to decide on the Commission who will be responsible to analyze the electoral bill...

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https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-9423-haiti-elections-section-241-of-the-electoral-act-was-voted-or-not.html

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