The Transitional Presidential Council and Prime Minister Gary Conille are mobilizing to quickly establish the Provisional Electoral Council. In this context, various sectors of society are called upon to designate their representatives.
For the human rights sector, the Organization of Citizens for a New Haiti (OCNH) and the Platform of Haitian Human Rights Organizations (POHDH) are responsible for coordinating the choice of representatives.
The press sector will be represented by “SOS Journalistes” and the Association of Haitian Journalists (AJH), while the KNVA and Wayòm Vodou Ayiti will designate the representative of the vodou sector.
As for the trade union sector, the Confederation of Haitian Trade Unions (CSH) and the Superior Council of Haitian Workers for the Reconstruction of the Country (COSHARCO) will be involved in the selection of representatives.
The State University of Haiti (UEH) and the Conference of Haitian University Rectors and Presidents (CORPUHA) will be responsible for designating the representatives of the university sector. The National Network of Haitian Peasants (RENAPA) will choose the representative of the peasant sector.
Finally, the organizations “Dialogue Inter-Femme” and “Fanm Yo La” will be responsible for designating representatives for the women’s sector.
The diaspora is still absent and the April 3 agreement is in the drawers!
Contrary to the multiple promises of the different sectors of Haitian society and despite the active involvement of the different Haitian communities in the socio-economic strengthening of the country, the Haitian diaspora is once again being sidelined. Contacted on this subject, several representatives of the organized sectors of the Haitian diaspora living in the United States, Canada and France expressed their indignation while indicating that they are not surprised by this often hypocritical approach of local politicians, knowing that the contribution of the diaspora is only necessary for interested reasons, but as soon as it comes to developing a common agenda to transform the country it is always another story, we often return to the same tricks and disappointments of the past. It must be remembered that the diaspora is not represented at the level of the Presidential Transitional Council. It was planned to involve the diaspora in the National Security Council and other entities that did not exist until now. Two months before this transition, the agreement of April 3 determining the mode of operation and the mission of the transition has still not been published in the official newspaper Le Moniteur, a major irregularity that has been highly criticized by stakeholders, informed observers and actors of the Haitian diaspora.
