Haiti - Politic : Absenteeism, a habit for some Senators...
The Senate, deprived of 10 of its members, already in difficult to have a quorum of 16 Senators (including the President of the Senate) required for the holding of plenary sessions, is now unable to hold such sessions, because of a group of 7 senators, more concerned by a visibility on the ground relatively to their re-election, than by the public affairs.
Simon Dieuseul Desras, President of the Upper House deplores this absenteeism that nothing justifies, describing the behavior of these Senators of "indecent" and irresponsible". "It is dangerous to despise the Senate and to want to undertake actions to secure a re-election [...] the enators have a moral obligation to participate in the sessions."
President of the Senate, threatening to publish in the press the names of senators not present absent of sessions, noting that the impossibility of holding these plenary sessions risk of reducing, to few things, the results of this legislative year. Stressing that the social, political and economic situation should sensitize these senators adepts of the "empty chair" to participate in the plenary sessions...
The plenary meeting scheduled, Wednesday, April 3, could not stand because of the absence of a quorum. According to the report, signed by Senator Steven Irvenson Benoit, First Secretary of the bureau, the senators who prevented by their absence [without legitimate cause], the holding of this session are : Jean William Jeanty, Edwin Daniel Zenny, Wencesclass Lambert, Lucien Derex Pierre-Louis and Maxime Roumer.
