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Haiti - Politic : Michel Martelly takes his time...
25/08/2011 15:18:54

Haiti - Politic : Michel Martelly takes his time...

3 weeks after the second rejection of the Prime Minister designated by the Head of State, Me Bernard Gousse, the President Martelly takes his time before providing the name of the next candidate for Prime Minister. Many observers and politicians. Many observers and politicians, are wondering if the President Martelly has a time limit to make known his decision, others, if the Constitution has provided this situation.

"...Unfortunately no, the Constitution sets no time limit", says the Senator of the Artibonite François Anik joseph (Alternative) "I say unfortunately, because for me, I think that in the constitutional revision [...] we should have think to establish a certain time in which the President must establish a government. After this period, Parliament, co-custodian of national sovereignty, would have a decision to take. Unfortunately we do not have this constitutional provision currently, there is no time limit to the President...

For the deputy Guerda B. Benjamin (Savanette/Quartier Baptiste - Ansanm nou fò) "it is important that the Presidency and Parliament walk side by side, that they work together [...] but I can say that the problem is due to a flaw in the Constitution, because normally, if the President knew that if he had not designate a Prime Minister in a time limit, the Parliament had the right to do something or give him an ultimatum, he would have taken his precautions and already designated a Prime Minister" The Deputy of Savanette believe that the Presiden Martelly should get out of the unconscious to become responsible and to remember that the people had voted for him...

As for Edmonde Supplice Beauzile (Centre) she recalls that "the Constitution, as in any country, can not enter into the details. There are constitutions that contain only a dozen articles, which give the major choices of the state and the broad outlines to fix how the rules of the games will be established to manage a country. You can not make a constitutional amendment with its emotions..."

S/ HaitiLibre



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