Posted to Rezo Nodwes, Dec. 18, 2024
JOINT STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY FROM THE PATRIOTIC AND PROGRESSIVE FORCES OF THE HAITIAN NATION FOR A RETURN TO THE COURT OF CASSATION
Considering that since the heinous assassination of the President of the Republic, His Excellency Jovenel MOÏSE, the country has been living in persistent denial of its constitution, which has only experienced one unfortunate attempt at amendment;
Considering that this denial was knowingly concocted, with the intention of harming the fortunes of the people, while the 1987 Constitution has never been set aside
Considering the collapse of almost all republican institutions responsible for guaranteeing public safety, security and the continuity of the State;
Considering that the power in place is characterized by the systematic violation of the fundamental rights of the population, in particular civil and political rights;
Considering that the current leaders are unable or unwilling, to date, to establish a coherent, timed and budgeted security plan and that without this plan, it will always be impossible to definitively unblock the interdepartmental roads serving as essential pulmonary arteries for the distribution of basic necessities throughout the national territory;
Considering the latest public statements by former Prime Minister Garry CONILLE, denouncing the embezzlement, corruption and especially the complicity of all members of the CPT, who, through their immoral and interested support for those accused of the BNC scandal. However, this support, decried by both the Haitian people and the "international community", has already caused irreparable damage to the Nation;
Considering the latest dissenting positions through respective public notes of the MONTANA Accord, the January 30 Collective, Fanmi Lavalas and those of Pitit Dessalines, EDE/RED and the December 21 Agreement, namely, Six (6) out of 9 of the stakeholders of the April 3 agreement, currently in power through their members in the TPC, which notes constitute on the one hand, a public denunciation of the spectacular and flagrant failure of the current power and on the other hand, an individual and collective disavowal of their respective members composing said TPC;
Considering the imperative and urgent need to establish a legal basis, necessarily involving the recognition of the authentic Constitution of 1987, with a view to organizing free, honest and democratic elections ;
Considering the controversies and issues surrounding a controversial approach of constitutional reform and the referendum: two initiatives that are foreign to the priority demands of the population;
Noting that the priority of the Haitian people can be summed up in three (3) coherent and related actions, namely: Re-establish security, establish a plan for social and economic appeasement through the immediate care of displaced persons, disaster victims and deportees, and organize free, honest and democratic elections.
Knowing that this appeal to the High Court will mark the immediate return to constitutional order, with a view to re-establishing all the republican institutions of the country and renewing the political personnel, on the jurisprudential basis of the said Constitution of 1987;
Convinced of the need to refer to the success recorded, on two occasions, by the Court of Cassation: (1) in 1990, with Judge Ertha Pascal TROUILLOT and (2) in 2004, with that of Me Boniface ALEXANDRE;
Considering that there is danger in the house. Therefore, it is time for the political class and the elites of the country to stop messing around in the pernicious and fruitless practice of endless agreements upon agreements , which produce absolutely no results, and which will produce no results;
With all these considerations and any others to come if necessary:
We, the Plural Opposition, Réveil National & Alliés, OLA, le Congrès National Ouanaminthe, le MIRN et Alliés, FND, LOD Demokratik, PREH, Alyans, Secteur Revendicatif Haïtien (SEREHA), Urgence Haïti, Plateforme politique Chemin Délivrance Ayiti, l’Action des Unités Motivées pour Haïti de Droit (AUMOHD), Mouvement Populaire Nord (MPN), Action et Justice pour les Femmes (AJFEMMES), Centrale Autonome des Travailleurs Haïtiens (CATH), Fowom Sitwayen nan Sid (FOSSID), Parti Fédéraliste (PF), Mouvement des Patriotes pour une Nouvelle Haïti (MOPANH), Plateforme Paysan Haïtien, Impacter Haïti, Vwa Ouvriye Travayè (VDT) ;
DECLARE that we support the urgent and unconditional appeal to the Court of Cassation.
We are committed to:
- Pool all our resources to establish a calendar of national, regional and international mobilization in order to intensify protest actions throughout the territory, with the aim of thwarting the destructive plan of the anti-national forces that are holding the country hostage.
- Establish a new transitional power, consisting of a bicameral executive, with a president chosen from among the judges in office at the Court of Cassation and a consensus prime minister, from the political class.
As part of the mission of the Transitional President, he will:
- To appoint a consensus Prime Minister;
- To form, in consultation with the Prime Minister, a government of National Unity, responsible for implementing the road map in question.
Thus, we launch a solemn appeal to the other political, social and civil actors of our country: let us join forces to allow the urgent return to the Court of Cassation and the restoration of constitutional order. This is a moment of courage and solidarity.
Translated by CHIP editors
Posted Jan. 13, 2024