HAITI/USA. L'administration TRUMP ordonne à Haïti la formation d'un CEP en vue d'élections.( en anglais)

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Selon le fonctionnaire de l'Etat US, Haïti serait en pleine marche vers la démocratie.

Briefing With Senior State Department Official On Haiti

SPECIAL BRIEFING

OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON
VIA TELECONFERENCE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

MODERATOR: Great. Next question, let’s go to the line of Jacqueline Charles.
QUESTION: I have two questions, one on Guyana and the other one on Haiti since we’re talking about democracy. On Guyana, what posture is the administration looking for from this new government in regard to Venezuela, considering that they are currently in a border dispute and the previous government basically tried to play it both ways?
And on Haiti, the prime minister today said that they will soon announce a new electoral commission, but the Catholic Church, Protestants, universities, human rights, private sector associations, all credible groups that have been part of the commission since ’86, have categorically said they will not send anyone to sit on a new CEP. What do you consider to be a credible CEP, how can it be formed, and how do you see elections taking place in this current environment where we’ve got police officers blowing up government cars and daily protests?
SENIOR STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL: Okay, good. On Guyana, yes, there is a border dispute between Guyana and Venezuela. It’s been going on for a long time. I think our position on that is very clear, and remains unchanged, which is that any – there was an arbitral award way back when. The matter has been submitted to ICJ review. Any disputes over the border should be resolved peacefully, as the two sides seem to be doing. So we don’t see any change on that front.
In terms of the problems that are created for Guyana by having refugee flows and also, I mean, it’s not just that Venezuela produces refugees; they are producing security problems for all these countries by harboring terrorists, harboring narcotraffickers. When we’re trying to interdict drugs – and we’ve put a lot more assets into that and working closely with all the Caribbean partners – where are those coming from? A good deal of the activity seems to be centered in Venezuela now.
So basically we’re looking to Guyana to remain – it’s in Guyana’s own interest, whether it was the previous government or this one, to try to work together to try to resolve the crisis in Venezuela.
On Haiti: Look, the issue we have there is very similar to what we had in Guyana for the last year or so, which is you can’t, in Guyana, say you have a democratic government if the government overstays its constitutional mandate and is ruling by decree, in effect. And that’s what’s happened in Haiti, perhaps through no fault of President Moise, but the legislature there never passed a electoral law during the entire time it was in. So he has the opportunity to do that by his rule by decree, and we believe he should. You can’t maintain a democracy for very long with one of the main branches of government being absent.
So we think all Haitians have a responsibility to deal with this. President Moise has the capacity to appoint a new provisional electoral council. There is a provision for that in the constitution. He is supposed to get recommendations from the different civil society groups. And frankly, I have to say I’m a little bit tired of every group, every opposition party in Haiti saying, “Well, I won’t appoint my person,” or “We won’t have an election,” or “We won’t run in this until you meet all of my political demands.” That’s not democracy. And so we are quite insistent on this, and it’s going to start to have consequences for those who stand in the way of it.
What we’re saying to the Haitian players is: Do your respective jobs. The president’s got a job to do, the legislators had a job to do and didn’t do it, but civil society has jobs to do too. And you can’t say doing my job is contingent on me extorting from you everything I want. That’s simply not a democratic way to go forward.
So we – for us, the Haitian constitution spells out what a provisional election council should look like. The president has some responsibility to appoint it with the – with input from those other groups. And obviously, the kinds of people you’d like to see appointed are people who have a reputation for integrity, honesty, competence, and who can do a good job of organizing elections. They’re not supposed to produce the outcome of the election, they’re supposed to produce a good electoral process. That’s all we ask in any of these countries, and that’s what we ask in Haiti. And I think we just saw that by asking – collectively asking for that and reinforcing those in their own countries who are asking for that, we saw very good outcomes in both Suriname and Guyana because they each ended up having credible processes and they have ended up resolving a whole series of issues that have built up because of a failure to do that.
So Haiti – Haiti really needs to step up to the plate and we’re very looking much forward to them doing it. But they need to do their job

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