PROPOSAL FOR A TRANSITION ROAD MAP
SOCIAL-POLITICAL MOVEMENT OF RENAISSANCE
Considering that:
The term of office of Mr. Jovenel Moise ended on February 7th, 2021 under Article 134-2 of the amended Constitution.
It is impossible to hold preparations for elections in the current year because the Regime in place has destroyed the voter database making the National Identification Card (NIC) process ineffective.
The existing level of insecurity with the presence of armed gang’s coalition in the country (so-called ‘G9 and Family’) taking advantage of the impunity and support afforded by the Regime in place. This makes it impossible to hold an electoral campaign in the country without a change of regime.
The number of people of voting age is currently estimated at more than seven (7) million. So far, less than three (3) million people have been registered with the new illegal voter registration process (Dermalogue) making it impossible to register everyone within a year.
A vast majority of the Haitian people are claiming the prosecution of the embezzlers of the Petro-Caribe program Funds.
The disruption and failure associated with the entire public administration, the regulatory bodies such as: UCREF, ULCC, CSCCA, and the growing corruption that is poisoning the public institutions.
The emergency caused the level of deterioration of socio-economic conditions of the Haitian population, subjecting them to live in the most abject poverty.
The widespread calls for a national conference and extensive amendments or a change of the constitution.
RENAISSANCE proposes the following as a strategic plan or governance program for the essential TRANSITION following the departure of Jovenel Moise.
Restore security: Meetings must be held urgently to establish new security plans: Cleanse and reform inside the National Police; organize the fight against the kidnapping; Proceed with the dismantling of gangs; Strengthen the control of the importation of arms and munitions on the borders, airports, private and public ports. Achieve the disarmament of young people from popular areas, Develop a social reintegration program through technical and vocational training and job creation for these young people.
Launching of sectoral workshops in the first few months to decide on reform plans to be implemented throughout the public administration, starting with the structures responsible for collecting the State revenues, namely DGI, DGD, (border management, ports and airports), traffic, car insurance, ONA, etc. Justice, National Education, Public Health, Infrastructures, Municipalities and more fields will follow. This will take between 9 to 12 months.
Make all necessary arrangements to make justice operational to make proper progress towards the completion of the Petro-Caribe trial and the massacres that took place under the governance of Jovenel Moise, it should take a year or more.
Establish a Commission for mobilizing the different entities to hold the National Conference. The Transitional government jointly with the Commission will have to work on the timetable and proposal of topics for discussion of the many conference meetings including the issue of amendments or the change of the constitution should be addressed. This should be launched within the first 100 days.
Develop simultaneously a public policy to enable the establishment and development of agro-industrial farms with at least 2 per departments of the country depending on major growth areas and the needs of the population in relation to nutrition.
Public policy Preparedness to launch the construction of Engineering and Industrial Plants for Regional Development (EIPRD) in the 4 main regions of the country (Great North, Centre-Artibonite, West, South-East and the Great South), they will take care of the development of road and/or rail and urban infrastructure for a global, integrated and sustainable development of the country. A new diplomacy will be guided towards these goals to find the necessary help to achieve them from the first year of this government of transition;
Establish a permanent electoral council to hold elections in the country following the adoption of the new constitution or the amended one.
Starting the registration process for voting age people after the reforms have been carried out at the National Office of Identification (ONI) level and the adoption of a new electoral identification card, it will have to last between 1 and 2 years.
Organize elections in the new Haiti during the last year of the transition to elect the new President of the Republic who will have to take office in the 4th year.
N.B. The 1987 constitution amended in its transitional provisions does not provide for recourse to the judges of the Cassation’s Court in the event of the need for a transition, but in a first case, it designates the Prime Minister to replace the President if He is in incapacity to continue to govern the country. And in the other, if his term comes to an end without holding regular elections, the parliament will have to do second-degree elections to elect a provisional president who will have to carry out the delayed elections.
Given that Jovenel Moise's term of office ended on February 7, 2021, and the parliament has been dysfunctional since January 2020, any of these two provisions is possible in the current case.
Logically, there remains only a political consensus between the international (USA in particular) and the most representative political and social forces in Haiti to designate a personality with one of the best programs for the recovery of Haiti to replace Jovenel Moise in the unprecedented situation in which the country finds itself.
The legal framework for the functioning of this transitional government will have to be prepared by the most experienced jurists of Haiti. They will have to specify the nature and operational mode of the control of the transitional government in the absence of parliament.
Signatories
Jhonny ESTOR
Coordinator of Renaissance Executive Board
Email: estor.johnny@gmail.com
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