All Haitians say that the president’s mandate will last five years and end on February 7, but the Government and the opposition will not agree if Jovenel Moise’s time is reached in 2022 or this same day.
These are the keys to extending the controversy, which aims to deepen the political instability that has plagued the Caribbean since 2018 and that, in the last months, has been aggravated by one of the most notorious sequestrants it has caused. population.
1. WHAT DOES LEY DICE?
Article 134.2 of the Constitution, introduced in a 2011 amendment, is the subject of much controversy. The doubt that Nadie recovers is if she can apply or not to the actual situation.
Dobbelsteen: “The elective president enters service on February 7th following the time of his election. In the event that the scrutiny can take place before February 7th, the elector president enters service immediately after the validation of scrutiny and is considered to have taken office on February 7 of the year of the elections “.
2. AN ELECTORAL COATIC PROCESS IN ACTIVITIES
First act: if the October 2015 elections are canceled, the first will be held, in which Moise will be the most voted, by fraud denunciations.
Second act: the President of the Senate, Jocelerme Privert, assumes the jefatura of the State on February 7, 2016, for 12 months, to avoid the power vacuum.
Go now: three quarters of the time, the elections will take place in November 2016. Moise gana holgadamente in the first round with 55.67% of the votes.
Current Act: Moise takes over the Presidency on February 7, 2017.
3. WHAT DID YOU ASK ABOUT ACABA IN 2021?
As part of the opposition, from party squads such as Fanmi Lavalas, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to center-right figures, including Senado President Joseph Lambert, the Moise meeting is his own.
The unions, the human rights organizations, the Collegium of Abogados, the Catholic Church, the Jesuits and the evangelicals also defended this thesis.
On the outside, the Permanent Conference of Latin American and Caribbean Political Parties (Copppal), which has joined the Progressive Party, has also favored 2021.
4. ¿QUIÉN DICE QUE ACABA EN 2022?
The Tèt Kale party, de Moise, and 15 other center-right formations in the Gobierno orbit, the majority of them without parliamentary representation.
The Organization of American States (OEA), United States, and other countries support the calendar of Moise. The ONU also announced that technical support will be provided to the authorities responsible for organizing the 2021 elections.
5. WHAT DO THE EXPERTS THINK?
The professor of the State University of Haiti Sonet Saint-Louis defines that the elections of 2015 and 2016 form part of a different process, which supports the thesis of the end of this mandate domingo.
In addition, Efe explains that the Constitution establishes a relationship between the presidential mandate and the duration of the legislatures, which must be reached by a difference of 12 months.
For that matter, “since Jovenel signaled the end of the 50th Legislature a year ago”, a drop in funding has been proposed.
Georges Michel, one of the editors of the 1987 Constitution, was favorable to the thesis of the final mandate in 2022, but told Efe that he had changed his mind about Moise’s “dictatorial behavior”; as now aboga porque salga del poder lo antes posible.
Moise goberna by decree from the year 2020, when Parliament dissolves without celebrating elections for renovation and, according to the expert, the mandate has abused this herramienta.
This historian also accuses Moise of treating “destroy the actual” Constitution and the Vatican that if not, Haiti can some in the violence.
“If Jovenel Moise had not been there on February 7, she would have been raped and had a lot of violence. She would have been raped. She would have wanted to kill Jovenel Moise by force. matarlo como hicieron con el presidente Vilbrun Guillaume Sam “, killed in an insurrection in 1915.