Following the retreat of Senators, which was held from December 3 to 5 at Club Indigo on the Côte des Arcadins, https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-12664-haiti-politic-unanimous-senators-wish-to-remain-in-office-after-january-12.html in order to adopt a consensual institutional position on the political crisis, the Senate Bureau sent to the President Michel Martelly, the text of the common position of the senators. In his covering correspondence, Simon Dieuseul Desras, President of the Senate, explains to the Head of State that "[...] following numerous debates on this subject, the signatories of this, the parliamentarians have agreed to launch to the major state powers a call for dialogue to reach consensus in the interest of the whole nation [...] the Senate Bureau remains convinced that this approach will catch your best attention [...]"

Text of the common position of the senators :

"his Excellency

Mr. Michel Joseph Martelly President of the Republic National Palace

CALL FOR CONSULTATION

It is becoming increasingly clear that we are moving inexorably toward a promised deadline to all hazards, all the adventures, all disasters. Extremists will clash without any inclination to join in the field of dialogue and compromise, which remains the privileged place of the democratic game.

This watertight compartments, this polarization of political forces, the stubbornness of some and the arrogance of others, all this undermines the hope of a reconciliation in the search for a solution to the current political and social crisis.

The formation by the President of the Republic of a consultative committee of eleven (11) members has all the appearance of a red herring: the Head of State, unable to decide after long consultations from September to November, discharges onto a plural commission the responsibility which is his to make himself the synthesis and take the appropriate decision.

Co-custodian of national sovereignty and therefore holder of a legitimacy conferred by popular anointing, the Senate considers the appropriate time to position front the nation and history. It is with deep sadness that it finds that the alarm call of Monday, November 17 launched by the Senators by the President of Corps, did not result in one and the other a burst of patriotic consciousness.

he situation, instead of logically move towards a peaceful and shared solution, sinks into in a blind impasse and the biggest loser will still be the people who, through the ballot [...]

[...]

IV - PROPOSALS

To avoid such failures, dislocation and chaos, the Senate demanded that serious assizes

be convened in the shortest time around the issues of:

1) Democratic governance;

2) The sovereign and credible elections;

3) The fundamental popular demands;

4) The dysfunctionality of some republican institutions.

The Senate, in a healthy reading of Article 136 of the Constitution, challenges the Head of State to convene...

[...]"

Read the rest and entire letter in French :

https://www.haitilibre.com/article-12675-haiti-politique-proposition-du-senat-au-president-martelly.html

HL/ HaitiLibre