Haiti’s transitional government officially interrupted efforts to prepare a new Constitution, as leaders first returned to the National Palace because the armed gang forced the government to abandon the Port-Au-Prindo city center.
The decision of the Presidential Council of the Transition was taken on Thursday at the National Chamber meeting at the Ministerial Council meeting. The government last held such a meeting there in 2024. In January, under the leadership of the then Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who was forced to resign after a month after a month of Washington, as the gangs began coordinated attacks throughout the capital.
As the leaders of the Presidential Commission and the current Prime Minister Alix Didier FiS-Raimé met on Thursday, an automatic weapon fire can be heard on a “champ-de-mars” expanding public square bordering the palace.
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The proposal was led by the National Conference Initiative Committee. The Lawyers’ Committee stated that the proceedings were unlawful because it violated the 1987 The provisions of the Constitution regarding how it can be amended and because the steering committee failed to meet with various social, political and professional groups to obtain the contribution and purchase of the public, even though it was to be part of their procedures.
Lawyers and others also pointed out that nine members of the Presidential Council of the Transitional Transition were on that day in 2024. In April, instead of declaring the Constitution void, and announced the country in the transition, they took an oath for the Constitution and promised to support it.
The mandate of the initiative committee was terminated on Thursday. The Mandate of the Provisional Electoral Council was also amended to eliminate the need to organize the need to organize a referendum to vote on a new Constitution. The Council of Ministers also adopted the deferred budget of 2025-26 for the country.
For months, the initiative of the preparation of the new Constitution, where political leaders, legal experts and constitutional scientists questioned the lawfulness of the process and the content of the proposed project, were controversial. Among the most controversial issues: Reduction of parliamentary power reduced a new vice president and created regional managers with indefinite conditions, so they can make more powerful than the president who would be limited to two five years.
Haiči living in the US also contradicted because they were left out of the process. They also argued that if the tool was to be executed, Haiti would be in a new constitutional crisis.
January The group headed by former MP Jerry Tardieu and the initiative committee is accused of receiving a public contribution, stated that he faced “many challenges” of the Haitian gang crisis.
“After closing the Port-Au-Prince airport, the capital’s insulation and the constant worsening of security prevented the group from traveling to the provinces for important departments and consultations abroad with diaspora-like initially,” report by submitting his report, submitting his report, submitting his report, submitting his message, submitting his message, submitting his message, submitting his report, submitting his report, submitting his statement that it had filed any referendum.
The group also noted that increasing political tension and extensive violence “created a severe atmosphere that is not favorable for a quiet and constructive dialogue about the Constitution.”
Foreign diplomats and Haitian leaders are accused of instability of the country for its 1987. His time of death.
Others argued that while some constitutional provisions, such as the aggravating management structure and casc an election, need to be changed, the cause of Haiti’s instability is not the document, but the inability of politicians to implement it.
Members of the transitional government had little to say after receiving copies of the Constitution draft from the initiative committee. They had concern privately and discussed how they would reject the project. Earlier this month, Henry Wooster, the US Embassy of Chargé D’Atens, posted a pointed message in the video X Haiti’s leaders decided to finally make a decision.
In a statement, Wooster called for Haiti’s Transition Council and the Government to “fully play their role, offering a specific plan with an election and political transition schedule.”
Henry Wooster, Chargé d’Affaires at the US Embassy in Haiti.
It is not mentioned by the constitutional referendum that some countries have just mentioned last month in public comments in the American state organization, and were widely interpreted as the silent approval of Washington to abandon the controversial impetus.
During the press conference against the United Nations Security Council, he voted for a new force of Haiti’s Gang Forces, Wooster said the Haičiai need to hold elections to choose a new president. Questions about security, election and the Constitution must not be allowed to be “red herring to take action,” he said.
“In other words, you can’t stay in those jobs for a lifetime,” said Wooster, talking about the transitional presidential council and members of the current government.
Wooster acknowledged that there were obstacles to elections in Haiti, which increasingly seemed to have no newly elected president, who was in office against the authority of the Presidential Council after the end of 2026. February 7th
“The obstacles ranged from the security crisis or crisis, some of the members of the transitional presidential council to move, move, and refusal of the Nettlesome Constitution,” he said during a 24 September press conference on US foreign policy priorities. Reliable … elected head of state, can he wait? “
The US diplomat emphasized that Haiti, who last held a general election in 2016, had the last to be elected president in 2021. In July, must have a “democratically elected head of state”.
“It has to happen,” Wooster said. “The question of whether the constitutional data or not is the issue of Haiti’s decision.”