This June 15, 2016 Haiti woke up in the most total vagueness on the political level. the 120 days granted by the agreement of February 5 to the Provisional President Jocelerme Privert have expired. However, on June 14, that is to say one day the day before, according to many observers, the parliament, via the National Assembly which was planned there, had all the latitude to seal the fate of Mr. Privert. Nothing was done. Due to a lack of quorum, the National Assembly could not take place.
Parliamentarians considered close to the Provisional President were conspicuous by their absence. Nevertheless, the latter signatories of a petition, in a declaration of June 14, called for the pursuit of the objective of the Agreement of February 5, 2016 and to extend the mandate of the provisional President until the installation of a new President-elect, no later than February 7, 2017.
These 11 parliamentarians called for maintaining “political stability and the strengthening of the climate of confidence, favorable to macroeconomic stability, as well as the political openness observed at the national level for earlier four (4) months”.
These parliamentarians also voted for a “reshuffle of the electoral calendar in such a way as to lead to the publication of the final results of the presidential, legislative and senatorial elections no later than December 31, 2016”.
On the other side of the barricade there is the minority group which does not swear that the end of the mandate of President Privert. For the latter, the failed session of June 14 is none other than the work of the Pro-Privert parliamentarians. At the end of the day, they believe that with regard to the prescriptions of the agreement of February 5, Mr. Privert’s mandate has ended and it is up to the National Assembly to decide on the issue.
The possible scenarios mentioned by these parliamentarians are the maintenance of President Privert if he obtains a favorable vote from the National Assembly, the dismissal of Mr. Privert and his replacement by the President of the Court of Cassation or his Prime Minister Enex Jean- Charles according to the amended Constitution.
Be that as it may, the ball is now in the court of the National Assembly which holds the keys to the way out of this new acute political crisis in a Republic where the Presidency, a highly prestigious institution, is completely “in the street”.
The declarations made to the press this Wednesday June 5 by the enators Car Murat Cantave, Jean-Baptiste Bien-Aimé and Edwin Zenny.
