Puerto Príncipe, Haiti.
La Haitian Catholic Church trust this martes to the president Jovenel Moise respect for the electoral law and the Constitution, in a message interpreted by the officialism and the opposition as a sugerencia clara de que termine ya su mandato.
In an official statement, the Episcopado affirms that “Nadie is at the heart of the law and the Constitution” and states that “everywhere the world knows that Haiti is a state of Derecho”.
“The President of the Republic has applied the electoral and Constitutional Laws to the Deputies, Senators and Elders in the precedent of the previous years, including the same, proclaiming that the Law is one for all”, the text says .
The communiqué did not allow Moise to say the power of explicit form, but all sectors of officialism as the opposition he interpreted that the bishops, in this way, were the power of the groups that, citing the Constitution and an electoral decree of 2015, considering that the presidential mandate concludes the next domingo.
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On the sidelines of the political questioning, the Episcopado also refrained from committing the crime that plagued the country, claiming that Haiti was “on the brink of extinction: the people for the people are death, assassinations, impunity, insecurity” “.
Moise’s assessor, Stanley Lucas, responds to a Twitter report saying “the Catholic Church prefers to join the coalition of oligarchs to protect the system in order to support democracy, reform and modernization”.
The duration of Moise’s mandate has changed these days in the center of the political battle between the Government and the opposition and has motivated protests and a general celebration that celebrates its second and final day.
Moise was elected for a term of five years in 2016 in an election that was repeated after the cancellation of the 2015 comics by fraud denunciations, and used the cargo on February 7, 2017.
Pero bajo the optics of the opposition, an article of the Constitution abre the possibility of interpreting that the mandate of Moise commenced an antes, debido a electoral crisis.
This thesis is supported by the large majority of the opposition, the unions, the College of Lawyers, the Jesuits and now the Episcopate, among other groups.
Without embarrassment, the theory that the mandate of Moses concludes on February 7, 2022, to support the Organization of American States (OEA), United States and other countries.
Moise has convened elections for the next September and is preparing to approve a new Constitution, which will be referred to sometime in April, according to its plans. EFE