Haiti's President Jovenel Moise, who began ruling by decree this week, want...
HAVANA - Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise, who began ruling by decree this week, wants to use his new power to overhaul the constitution in an attempt to break a “decades-long cycle of political crises,” a planned presidential statement seen by Reuters shows.
The statement does not specify the precise changes sought but Moise is likely aiming to strengthen the presidency which was weakened in Haiti’s 1987 Magna Carta due to a mistrust of strong figureheads in the wake of the Duvalier family dictatorship. The president aims to get the new constitution drafted within three months of being started, the source said, and voted on in a referendum by year-end.Moise has flagged his desire to amend the constitution before but until this week has not had the power to do so. It is the first time a timetable for reform has been laid out.
“It is illusory to believe a president who is rejected by the people could change the constitution,” said Andre Michel, a politician with the opposition Democratic and Popular Sector.The president can try to carry out constitutional reform without broad backing given he started ruling by decree this week but it could lack legitimacy and spark new unrest.
But his camp and others in the international community have made it clear they see an opportunity to get around what they see as parliament’s “obstructionism” and get things done.
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