A term sometimes rebellious, sometimes complacent Excerpt from Nouvelliste
Pulling the curtain on the 48th Legislature, members left behind a deeply divided Parliament and monocarméral. Before leaving, they voted in a hurry several controversial bills. Back to the 48 months of a term sometimes rebellious, sometimes complacent.
the glow of candles in the afternoon of Monday, May 8, 2006, the 48th Legislature signed his entry into a palace Legislative almost immaculate whiteness. Four years later, they retire to the wooden bell, leaving an institutional vacuum like the previous legislature and a building collapsed in the quake of 12 January. Despite the turmoil and political upheavals, the now former members hang behind them as a balance sheet for the least impressive and studded with scandals and pseudo-scandals: the end of their constitutional mandate (January 2010), thirty-five laws strengthening the Haitian judicial arsenal. The extension of three months justified the delays in organizing Partial legislative and senatorial allows members to improve their performance. The 18-month extension of the law on the state of emergency, the law on the integration of disabled people, paving the way for the eventual extension of the mandate of René Préval and the law on responsible parenthood are the latest acts of the 48th Legislature. This brings to 42 the number of laws passed. "The review showed that the 48th Legislature has increased over the 46th and the 47th who successively punished twenty-seven and twenty-five", exults the General Secretariat of the Chamber of Deputies in a document balance sheet.
Among the laws passed, some need attention. This is the case law boosting the minimum wage from 70 to 150 and 200 bottles as well as the controversial law extending the state of emergency until 18 months. It will take time to forget the stir caused by the passage of these laws. Indeed, protesters continue to demand the withdrawal of the emergency law by the head of state, Rene Preval. His departure also be later than February 7, 2010. "This is the street that will determine whether Preval will start in February or May," warned Herve Saintilus, a fierce critic of the government in power. Before
to abandon the Legislative Building for a temporary shelter at the police academy, the members have made 191 sessions, including 34 in the National Assembly, 46 conferences and 104 chairs meetings in commissions. A year after taking office, the legislature began to show its determination to the executive by ejecting, July 31, 2007, Daniel Elie. Only five members at that time were trying desperately to save the chair of the Minister of Culture and Communication accused of nepotism, cronyism, stagnation, abuse of power. Before him, Leslie Gouthier, former Minister of Trade and Industry under the administration Aristide / Neptune, had suffered the same fate. A spell that did not please the President René Préval, who took time to replace the architect Elijah to the old Supreme Headquarters of the Armed Forces of Haiti transformed into the Ministry of Culture and Communication.
In four to eight months in parliament, elected representatives have ratified three Prime Ministers (Jacques-Edouard Alexis, Michele Duvivier Pierre-Louis and Jean-Max Bellerive) and rejected two other proposed by the President of the Republic: P. Eric Pierre and Robert Manuel. Behind this lies a rejection of some parliamentarians Consultation progressives. This block in rebellion against the traditional political parties saved, among others, the chair of Alexis finally ousted by the Senate led by Youri Latortue et al.
balance human
Besides the laws passed and the number of sessions held, members may also note the scandals that have tarnished the image of the 48th Legislature. Disgusted by the management office of the first suspect, Steven Benedict, face eternal child, ex-brother-in addition to the Head of State announced early color, with a structure to combat corruption internally. This structure was created the Coordination of progressive parliamentarians (CPC). Majority in the House of Deputies, this block, which was afraid for his discipline, ended in January 2009 in the invincibility of Eric Pierre Jean-Jacques, president of the Lower House. Three annual terms in three years, this coffee exporter, producer of essential oil and rum, marked the 48th Legislature until he was ousted, disparaged and undermined by the CPC. With some
Levaillant Louis-Jeune as spokesman, Lucas Sainvil, Coordinator, this block rock solid always voted the same way, except the votes critical of the law on minimum wage, however, proposed by Steven Benoit, one of its most influential members. Divergence who signed the killing of that block fragmented. The majority was found in the insiders, the platform powered by the Head of State, to the chagrin of the political opposition.
Deputies disapproved
As to mimic the Senate has expelled Rudolph Boulos among its members, the Chamber of Deputies disapproved two of its members: Edmond and Dormeus Elou St. Louis Fleurine. The verdict of the first meeting convened by the new board controlled by the CPC promised to be, January 20, 2009, as a chopper to the member Dormeus Edmond, whose U.S. citizenship has been proven by a parliamentary commission of inquiry. Elected representatives of Anse-Rouge is not the only member disagreed, his colleague Elou Fleurine St. Louis is, too. But it did not stay attached to his office. There was eight months old, who dreamed of making the island of La Gonave a department full geographical had resigned for health reasons.
Senators had also scored in their own way the 48th Legislature. The number of scandals and pseudo-scandals they may have caused, no doubt, to match the number of laws passed. Who does not remember voting for the surprising resolution supporting the SOCABANK under the chairmanship of Senator Joseph Lambert. Some senators, according to Senator Gabriel Fortune, had received bribes, kickbacks as part of the "Socagate. Charges that the parliamentary committee headed by Senator Edmonde Beauzile Torment was not proven. The case was dismissed for lack of evidence.
The first scandal in the Senate of the Republic could be seen as the head of the iceberg. He opened the door to other scandals some more damning than others: drug trafficking, sexual abuse, sessions rigged. Who does not remember the meeting to ratify the policy of Prime Minister Michele D. Pierre-Louis or the one with respect to his arrest?
The subordination of the Senate to the executive branch has always been a concern. You can count on the fingers of one hand the Senators who have not always kept his head down the path charted by the executive. If the executive has suffered before training was initiated a few of the failures in the lower house, this has never been the case in the Senate of the Republic. The executive has always found even senators of the opposition political parties in his service.
Two of these last three acts of elected representatives are the least controversial and divide the Senate already cut a third of its members.
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