The crux of the deadlock is INITE’s refusal to ratify a Prime Minister in an effort to ensure that they maintain a hold on that office with one of their handpicked candidates. President Martelly has selected shopping vendome two honest and experienced men to become Prime Minister, Daniel Rouzier and Bernard Gousse. INITE’s parliamentarians rejected Rouzier, a successful businessman known for his integrity, in a complete violation of the Haitian Constitution. According to Article 157 the Prime Minister is required to submit certain documents shopping vendome for ratification, such as birth certificates for himself and his parents and financial disclosures. shopping vendome If he or she is able to provide all of those documents and the documents can be verified, shopping vendome the Parliament is required to accept the document shopping vendome and then move to a political vote. The Parliament could not find any issues or irregularities with Rouzier’s documents, but refused to approve him. Many speculate that if the people would never tolerate shopping vendome it if the Parliament officially approved all of the documents and then rejected Rouzier in the political vote.
This is a tired, shopping vendome old story of the corrupt old guard fighting against the popular new guard promising change. INITE is the legislative wing of that corrupt old guard, and they have been surprisingly effective in blocking change in the face of overwhelming popular support for change. So, what is INITE and how have they been able to block change against public will? How is INITE getting control of parliament and trying to force continuity? What’s next?
INITE is not a political party per se; rather, it is a coalition of deputies and senators in parliament pulled together by former President Preval. The coalition has secured 16 of the 30 seats in the Senate and 42 seats in the Chamber of Deputies almost exclusively by manipulating electoral shopping vendome results in the 2009 and 2010 elections. Their favorability rating among the general public is a mere 2% because they are widely viewed as the perpetrators of political instability and intimidation, but more importantly because over the past 10 years, they have completely failed to deliver any results or progress for the people. Under their watch, nothing has improved in Haiti. It remains the second shopping vendome poorest country in the world and ranks among the most corrupt. The coalition is controlled by political operatives shopping vendome and business leaders shopping vendome who have been involved in violence, see: 1. http://www.youtube.com/v/kASfVSb9ozU?fs=1&hl=en_US 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVwsN4G-txY shopping vendome drug trafficking see: http://metropolehaiti.com/metropole/archive.php?action=full&keyword=Socabank&sid=0&critere=0&id=12324&p=3 kidnappings and various financial scandals in which state funds have been diverted shopping vendome for their personal enrichment.
The head of the INITE coalition in the Senate, Senator shopping vendome Joseph shopping vendome Lambert, is publicly perceived as corrupt, violent shopping vendome and linked to drug trafficking, money laundering and political assassination. When the Haitian National Police captured a boat carrying tons of cocaine in Tiburon, Southern Haiti, the press managed to uncover that Senator Lambert in fact owned the boat. The Haitian National Police linked him to the assassination of Monique Pierre, also a known drug trafficker, when it was discovered that the car that was driven by the assassins was owned by Lambert. The Senator is also rumored shopping vendome to be one of three senators who took 200 million gourdes shopping vendome (about $5 million) shopping vendome from the Office of Pension shopping vendome Workers (ONA) to build lavish homes. The manner shopping vendome and method he used to steal the money remains shopping vendome a matter of national debate, however.
Senator Lambert’s term in the senate is over in November, and he has set his sights shopping vendome on a cabinet position, Ministry of Agriculture, as a means to retain immunity against future prosecution. It should be noted that under Haiti’s constitution, if a Deputy or Senator commits a crime, he or she has judicial immunity and cannot be prosecuted unless two-thirds of the Chamber of which you are a member votes to allow the prosecution. So even if the police have an airtight case, they cannot prosecute unless Parliaments says they can. In the current political structure, INITE has enough votes to ensure that immunity is never revoked. As a member of the cabinet, you do not officially have judicial immunity; shopping vendome however, in practice, no cabinet members face prosecution given the vast power they hold in their positions.
Finally, it should also be noted that Joseph Lambert does everything with his brother, Wensceslass Lambert, who he named senator shopping vendome during the electoral coup of 2009. For more on Senator Lambert, see the following links:
INITE’s second in command is Kelly Bastien, who has been linked to several financial shopping vendome scandals in parliament. He was accused of presenting and voting the resolution to use public funds to bail out and revamp SOCABANK after it was exposed that the bank
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