Fanmi Lavalas executive council has issued a political statement criticizing the Transitional Presidential Council's (TPC) planned "bogus referendum" for May 2025, which still includes the "three BNC robbers" accused of corruption.
According to the statement, this initiative, launched in a context of widespread insecurity and government inaction to effectively regain control of the "lost territories," is perceived as a futile attempt at political legitimacy. Fanmi Lavalas leaders also denounced the inability of the authorities in the TPC to reestablish state control in areas dominated by gangs.
The statement emphasized the urgency of addressing basic needs for security, justice, and access to public services, before claiming to organize pike kole elections. FL's executive advises against initiatives that would only exacerbate mistrust and social fragmentation.
The statement reflects a political divide, as the party appears to oscillate between firm opposition to the de facto executive, embodied by Leslie Voltaire and Alix Didier Filas-Aimé, and an ambiguous position in its relations with the TPC.
Indeed, the choice of Leslie Voltaire, a former minister in the Lavalas government, to sit on this unconstitutional body casts doubt on the party's real intentions. Lavalas's criticism of the Bouyi vide elections planned in eight of the ten geographical departments is, on the one hand, a denunciation of the government's unrealistic ambitions and, on the other, an attempt to reaffirm its position as the spokesperson for popular demands.
Fanmi Lavalas Statement
Feb. 2, 2025
Fanmi Lavalas bows low to greet the Haitian people who suffer from insecurity morning and night.
Leaving the cancer of insecurity in Port-au-Prince to hold elections in 8 other departments is like washing hands and wiping them on the floor. Running to boil a referendum for a constitution without providing security to the people is like carrying water in a reed basket.
Everything can be used for a bogus reference, after a bogus toy to return it to a canister.
Fanmi Lavalas encourages the representatives of the TPC to respect the will of the people who demand security for the election and referendum.
The ears should not be longer than the head.
The people are the greatest authority. We are all obliged to listen to the respect of their rights.
All citizens have the right to live in peace at home, the right to move freely, the right to food, the right to health and education, the right to prevent gangs from taking over the country.
Fanmi Lavalas says to NATO that's enough.
Fanmi Lavalas calls for an ear to give the police good means to free everything that is blocked and territory that is lost.
Neither the TPC, nor the Government, nor the Haitian People, will be able to save the transition alone. It is not too late to do it together.
Translated and edited for clarity by CHIP editors
Posted April 5, 2025