PREVAL’S PARLIAMENT – BOUGHT AND PAID FOR – RUBBER STAMPS PLAN FOR DICTATORSHIP Haiti prez to extend term if election not held-Added COMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

By JONATHAN M. KATZ

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian President Rene Preval said Wednesday he will stay in office up to three months past the end of his term if his earthquake-ravaged nation does not hold a presidential election as scheduled.

His aide said the extension is needed to avoid chaos in case a ballot cannot be held to choose Preval’s successor. The announcement set off an outcry from opposition lawmakers, who called the move unconstitutional and compared Preval to brutal dictators of the past.

Preval’s five-year term is scheduled to end Feb. 7. But electoral officials are struggling to hold the election as scheduled this fall as it copes with the loss of its headquarters and records, destroyed polling places and some 1.6 million displaced or deceased voters.

The electoral council, now operating out of a gym seized in a drug raid, is also embroiled in controversy. Opposition candidates barred from February legislative elections that were canceled after the quake have accused council members of favoring Preval’s newly formed Unity party. One council member also faces dismissal on charges of embezzlement.

In a decree dated Tuesday, the 67-year-old Preval said that if an election is not held before Nov. 28 he can remain in office for an extra three months — until May 14, 2011. That date falls five years after Preval’s delayed 2006 inauguration, which was pushed back by wrangling over the vote count.

“If President Preval were to leave on Feb. 7, while the new president is not elected, we would find ourselves in an impossible situation,” his chief of staff, Fritz Longchamp, said.

He said Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive and Cabinet members who signed the decree “want to make sure that the country is not going to slip into chaos.”

Opposition lawmakers slammed the decision. Senator Youri Latortue said the move violated the constitution and pledged to challenge it before Haiti’s supreme court.

Acluche Louis-Jeune, a deputy with the Struggling People’s Organization party, told Haiti’s Channel 11 that Preval is trying to stay in office to profit from the $12.7 billion-and-counting pledged in reconstruction aid.

“He’s trying to make himself president for life like (ex-dictators Francois and Jean-Claude) Duvalier,” he said.

Longchamp said Parliament’s approval is needed for the extension, but lawmakers will have to act fast: On Monday all seats in the lower chamber and a third of the seats in the Senate expire. The Feb. 28 election to replace them could not be held because of the chaos following the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Preval also served as president from 1995 to 2000. He stepped down as scheduled when his term ended and handed power back to the man who preceded him, the re-elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

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COMMENT: HAITIAN-TRUTH.ORG

Once again, with the stroke of pen, Preval is on his way to initiating a dictatorship. He did this in January, 1999 when Parliament expired and he ruled by Decree for 18 month until the international community forced him to hold elections.

In a decree dated Tuesday, the 67-year-old Preval said that if an election is not held before Nov. 28 he can remain in office for an extra three months — until May 14, 2011.

Once May 14 arrives there will be nothing to step Preval from staying forever, other than the power of Haiti’s Mob when it takes to the street.  Preval will pay his gang leaders to create insecurity and no vote will be held.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see the game plan.

Now Preval must rush this through before next Monday – when Parliament’s term expires . Once he gets his law in place there will be no sitting authority capable of modifying his stand

Somehow this news article suggests that  the electoral council is operating out of some sweat-soaked room/gymnasium. In fact, they took over one of the few modern, multi-story buildings in Haiti. Gold’s Gym was built with drug profits and no expense was spared. The mayor of Petionville wanted this for her city hall but Preval gave it to the CEP. It would  be comfortable in Beverly Hills, California.

Many luxury offices and shops were tenants before the building was seized.

There is a suggestion that “destroyed polling places” migh influence the situation. This statement is for the naïve foreign observers who do not understand the Haitian reality. Polling places can be anywhere. There is no official structure in Haiti.

A loss of records!!! The CEP is not noted for record keeping. Each electoral process…”reinvents  the wheel…”

A new CEP is required. The present one is owned by Preval, lock, stock and barrel…as it the Parliament. Preval and Jacques Alexis stole enough money  to pay millions for each parliamentarian’s vote.   This is Democracy by Dollars.

Preval must go – on schedule or before.

A new independent CEP must be put in place.

The international community must invest the cash and resources required to REALLY guarantee a free-and-fair-election.

PREVAL WILL SCREW THINGS UP – IF WE LET HIM – AND HE WILL CREATE A SITUATION IN WHICH NO SANE PERSON WOULD TRY TO HOLD AND ELECTION. THIS REQUIRES ONE PHONE CALL, FROM THE PRESIDENT TO GANG LEADERS HE RELEASED FROM JAIL ON JANUARY 12, 2010 – THE DAY OF THE GREAT QUAKE.

SHOOTINGS – KIDNAPS – MURDERS – FIRE-BOMBINGS …WILL BE THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS AS PREVAL FIRMS UP HIS ONE MAN GOVERNMENT – WITH MINUSTAH SUPPORT.

KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BALL!! OR, AQS THEY SAID IN THE WATERGATE SCANDAL “FOLLOW THE MONEY.”

MINUSTAH LOST ITS LEADESHIP IN THE JANUARY 12 QUAKE.

MULET WAS SENT TO REPLACE THE DEAD MINUSTAH CHIEF.

MULET WAS CHIEF WHEN PREVAL WAS GIVEN THE PRESIDENCY BY MINUSTAH IN 2006.

BRAZIL AND CHILE WERE KEY ELEMENTS IN THIS THEFT.

MULET  WAS A KEY FIGURE IN THIS CRIME AND HAS RETURNED TO THE SCENE IN AN EFFORT TO RETAIN PREVAL’S PRESIDENCY. MULET RECEIVED MONEY FROM PREVAL IN 2006. THERE IS NO REASON TO BELIEVE HE WILL NOT RECEIVE A GOLDEN HANDSHAKE AGAIN.

MULET’S MOTIVES MUST BE SUSPECT.

WATCH OUT FOR MULET !!!

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2 thoughts on “PREVAL’S PARLIAMENT – BOUGHT AND PAID FOR – RUBBER STAMPS PLAN FOR DICTATORSHIP Haiti prez to extend term if election not held-Added COMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

  1. The Chambre of Deputies had best thing carefully before they marry themselves to Preval’s plan. If they shoot and miss they will have to live in Haiti with the rest of us while Preval and his criminal esacpe to luxurios exile.
    If you don’t have an American visa don’t vote with Preval. There will be no place to run.

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