In a press release published this Sunday, April 14, stakeholders rejected the decree published by the government creating the Presidential Council, arguing that the decree published has nothing to do with the one submitted to it. The latter require that the political agreement and the document establishing the Presidential Council be published, that the bipartisan transfer of powers commissions be linked and that the Presidential Council be installed as soon as possible, in the form and content defined in the political agreement of April 3, 2024.
It is a real thunderclap from the stakeholders of the political agreement of April 3, 2024 after the publication of the decree creating the Presidential Council by the government.
These organizations say they are deeply shocked upon learning of the decree published on April 12, 2024 by the government chaired by the “impeded” Prime Minister Ariel Henry. the latter denounce “the introduction of major modifications which distort the consensual project of a two-headed executive carried by the Presidential Transitional Council, a consensus patiently and laboriously built between the Stakeholders from March 11, 2024”.
For several reasons, stakeholders contest the validity of the decree. They take as proof, “the manifest desire of Ariel Henry and his government to choose not to respect the commitments to which they subscribed, through their direct representatives grouped within the Agreement of December 21 at the Presidential Council. »
Stakeholders also denounce the fact that the government chose “not to publish, or even mention, the Political Agreement of April 3, 2024 in the decree of April 12 creating the Presidential Transitional Council and not to make public Le Moniteur Special No. 14-A relating to the “Order appointing the Members of the Presidential Transitional Council”.
These structures recall “that Prime Minister Ariel Henry came to power in exceptional circumstances linked to the assassination on July 7, 2021 of President Jovenel Moise, thanks to three political agreements, two of which were published in Le Moniteur” .
“We must recall that in the absence of the political agreements of September 11, 2021 and December 21, 2022, no member of the current Cabinet would have been eligible to be Minister or Prime Minister on the basis of the provisions of the constitution,” underline stakeholders in this press release while reaffirming their commitment to remain committed to the political agreement of April 3, 2024.
Consequently, they demand strict compliance with the commitments to which the resigning government subscribed during the political process led by CARICOM.
The latter require that arrangements be made to publish in Le Moniteur the political agreement and the document relating to the organization and functioning of the Presidential Council; Connect the bipartisan transfer of powers commissions; Install as soon as possible the Presidential Transitional Council in the form and content defined in the Political Agreement for a Peaceful Transition and
Order of April 3, 2024.
This press release is signed by all stakeholders of the Presidential Council including the agreement of December 21, Montana and Pitit Desalin.
By: Daniel Zéphyr
