Information service of the Pontifical Mission Societies since 1927
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Haitian President Michel Martelly has announced the formation of a Commission composed of "credible and honest people" to study the solutions to end the crisis. The announcement was given on Friday evening, November 28, at the end of a day in which thousands of people demonstrated to demand the resignation of the President. According to the note sent to Fides by a local source, while popular protests in front of the seat of government were still ongoing, Martelly announced on television: "the country is divided and the problems are complex, so I have created a Commission to resolve the crisis".
The Commission will count among its members: a Bishop of the Catholic Church, a Pastor and an Anglican bishop, two former senators, a lawyer, a historian, a trade unionist and a peasant leader. It will have eight days to submit proposals for the solution of the crisis in the country to the President.
The mandate of the current Parliament (99 deputies and 10 senators) expires on January 12, 2015, and without elections a political vacuum would be created, leaving everything in the hands of Martelly. Three years have gone by and the President has not been able to organize elections for the Parliament and for the appointment of local Governors, thus determining a social and political paralysis in the country, not yet recovered from the consequences of the devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010. (CE) (Agenzia Fides 01/12/2014)
