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Haiti's biggest party banned from Senate race

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Aristide's party still blocked from Haiti election

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Questions to Ezili Dantò on Lavalas Split, by Ezili Dantò, February 7, 2009
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Third Lavalas faction - are they Fanmi Lavalas?

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Video: 2009 - Bush To be Investigated for Kidnapping Aristide, for the Iraq War and other Matters

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Haiti bill calling for investigation of U.S. role in 2004 Coup d'État

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[ezilidanto] 12-year old Haitian supposedly bilked 850,000 out of the US State Department? Where are the investigative journalists of this world? Where'sthe Congressional inquiries/oversight when GRAND theft at US Embassy in Haiti is blamed on a Haitian teenager!!!

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Mandat ou non d’Aristide : Lavalas vs Lavalas February 10, 2009, Radio Kiskeya

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L’opposition au Dr Maryse Narcisse au sein de Fanmi lavalas met en doute l’authenticité d’un mandat de Jean Bertrand Aristide qu’elle a déposé au CEP February 10, 2009, Radio Kiskeya

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The Second Slate of Lavalas Candidates

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The Maryse Narcisse Slate of Lavalas Candidates

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Third Lavalas faction - are they Fanmi Lavalas?

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Third Faction's: Rezolisyon Fanmi Lavalas nan kad Patisipasyon

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Unauthenticated: To Zabeth on Lettre ouverte des douze candidats de Fanmi Lavalas

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A group of Haitian migrants arrive in a bus after being repatriated from the nearby Turks and Caicos Islands, in Cap-Haitien, northern Haiti, Thursday, May 10, 2007. They were part of the survivors of a sailing vessel crowded with Haitian migrants that overturned Friday, May 4 in moonlit waters a half-mile from shore in shark-infested waters. Haitian migrants claim a Turks and Caicos naval vessel rammed their crowded sailboat twice before it capsized. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

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zilibutton In a series of articles written for the October 17, 2006 bicentennial commemoration of the life and works of Dessalines, I wrote for HLLN that: "Haiti's liberator and founding father, General Jean Jacques Dessalines, said, "I Want the Assets of the Country to be Equitably Divided" and for that he was assassinated by the Mullato sons of France. That was the first coup d'etat, the Haitian holocaust - organized exclusion of the masses, misery, poverty and the impunity of the economic elite - continues (with Feb. 29, 2004 marking the 33rd coup d'etat). Haiti's peoples continue to resist the return of despots, tyrants and enslavers who wage war on the poor majority and Black, contain-them-in poverty through neocolonialism' debts, "free trade" and foreign "investments." These neocolonial tyrants refuse to allow an equitable division of wealth, excluding the majority in Haiti from sharing in the country's wealth and assets." (See also, Kanga Mundele: Our mission to live free or die trying, Another Haitian Independence Day under occupation; The Legacy of Impunity of One Sector-Who killed Dessalines?; The Legacy of Impunity:The Neoconlonialist inciting political instability is the problem. Haiti is underdeveloped in crime, corruption, violence, compared to other nations, all, by Marguerite 'Ezili Dantò' Laurent
     
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Haiti's biggest party banned from Senate race By Joseph Guyler Delva

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 17 (Reuters)- Haitian authorities say they have barred the country's most popular political party from Senate elections, a move some fear could spark unrest.

Haitian electoral officials said The Lavalas Family Party failed to submit papers from former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide authorizing the party's list of Senate candidates. Aristide is living in exile in South Africa.

Lavalas Family Party members protested when officials refused to register their candidates on Feb. 6. Electoral officials gave them until Monday to submit the legal mandate.

Lavalas missed the deadline, officials said late Monday. So its 12 candidates were barred from running in the April 19 Senate election.

Many fear the decision to ban Lavalas could spark a new wave of unrest and political instability in Haiti. The United States, France, the Organization of American States and others have expressed concern that the decision could affect the credibility and legitimacy of the elections.

A senator from the party, Yvon Buissereth, called the decision nonsense and said it was a move toward illegitimate and anti-democratic elections.

"President Aristide is in exile and has not been actively making decisions about the party's activities for several years now," Buissereth told Reuters. "It's a total nonsense to obligate him, from his exile he did not choose, to get involved and validate candidates."

Aristide left Haiti on Feb. 29, 2004, amid a bloody rebellion led by a former army and police officer, Guy Philippe. Aristide, who was accused by his foes of despotism and corruption, was also under intense pressure from the United States and France to resign.

Rudy Heriveaux, another senator from Aristide's party, said the electoral council's decision to request a formal mandate from Aristide was a pretext to expel the party, which he said was in the best position to win the majority of the seats.

"The Lavalas Family Party participated in the 2006 legislative and presidential election. President Aristide did not give any mandate and election authorities found no problem with that," Heriveaux said.

Several members of the electoral council were chosen by rival parties, and The Lavalas Family Party has no representative on the panel.

Council President Frantz Gerard Verret rejected allegations of bias and said the decision was made in accordance with electoral law.

United Nations troops were sent to Haiti to restore stability after Aristide's ouster. The UN mission has been extended at least until October.

Several Lavalas factions claimed the party's leadership after Aristide's ouster from Haiti.

The leader of one faction, Maryse Narcisse, said in a statement that she was speaking on Aristide's behalf.

She said Aristide refused to legitimize what he called the coup that toppled his government by signing documents before consuls appointed by those who forced him from power.

"Those who were the victims of the coup are now those who have been excluded from the electoral and democratic process," the statement said. (Editing by Jane Sutton)

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MSNBC.com
Aristide's party still blocked from Haiti election
The Associated Press , Feb. 17, 2009

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haiti's electoral council has approved 13 new candidates for Senate elections, but is still prohibiting the Lavalas party of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from participating.

Radio Metropole says the council's list of 78 candidates issued late Monday is final. But the new list adds to a supposedly final list that was issued on Feb. 6. The council had said Lavalas' candidates were disqualified for failing to produce a letter signed by Aristide.

Lavalas executive council leader Maryse Narcisse says the party is appealing. Supporters say they will protest the election if their candidates cannot participate.

Voters will chose 12 senators on April 19.

Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29241743/

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Questions to Ezili Dantò on Lavalas split

Regarding HLLN post:
[ezilidanto] Haiti bars Aristide allies, former rebel who
helped oust him, from running for Senate | Divisions in Aristide's Lavalas party sharp

QUESTION ONE to Ezili:

What is your analysis of this? I'm very interested to hear, in light
of conflicts within Lavalas.
Js


QUESTION TWO TO Ezili -- On Fri, 2/6/09, rwalker wrote:

What are the possibilities of Aristide intervening long distance to try and shore up the legitimate Lavalas cadres? Feasible, conditionally possible or completely non-feasible?


Ezili Dantò's Answer:

One Lavalas faction is led by political prisoners (Yvon Neptune/So Ann)
who fought the US, denounced the coup d'etat, stayed in Haiti and/or refused to go into exile and FOUGHT with the people of Haiti in order for there to even be a puppet gov. right now, instead of straight up occupation with the morally repugnant elites as rulers for the "Haitian face" to neocolonialism.

The other faction is generally led up by folks who worked for, sometime in the past, for the international community/UN as "technician" or so their head says she did, along with "moderate Lavalas" who were able to stay in Haiti without imprisonment after the coup d'etat and effectively worked with the imposed Boca Raton regime at some point and who never truly defended the folks dying in Site Soley, Solino, Bel Air... or who, for survival purposes and because also they were left in Haiti never denounced the holding of the political prisoners and the coup detat slaughterings....Those in this faction who went into exile also remained relatively silent, for various reasons including the fact they were dependent on US asylum claims to remain abroad and alive....(To understand the dangers, recall Dr. Lovinsky Pierre Antoine who was one of those who fled Haiti to save his life, later returned to Haiti after the election of Preval in 2006, picked up his humanitarian work for Fondasyon Trant Septanm defending the Coup d'etat victims of both Bush regime changes in Haiti (1991 and 2004), gave interviews about the US Embassy's role in trying to assassinate him before he fled Haiti and who denounced the Boca Raton regime, demanded the UN end the occupation and continued to show the bloody work of the Haitian army. For his open dissent, Lovinsky was summarily disappeared in UN-occupied Haiti on August 2007, without a trace to this day. See Lovinsky speaks at the Darren Ell's interviews with Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, entitled "Sovereignty and Justice in Haiti," Part 1, dated Feb. 18, 2007 and Part 2, March 4, 2007).

In the first faction, there are those Lavalas, like Bel Angelot, who were forced overseas, but when they returned gave RESPECT and lead to those who stayed and fought.

Guess which side will eventually get US/International approval? The "moderate" Lavalas who stayed silent and have a relationship with the International community or those who openly denounced the coup detat, took imprisonment and now have more street credibility with the people? In terms of the questions regarding feasibility of President Aristide's long distance intervention, our past experience indicates that his silence sometimes, except for the annual New Years messages, can only be explained if he and his wife are under a gag order or house arrests in South Africa. So, one has no clue of President Aristide's intervention potential to reconcile these two sides of the Lavalas party. Especially considering his "spokesperson" leads the second Lavalas faction and is one of these who went into exile and who tell folks "she's a technician" who used to work for the UN occupiers and in some capacity for the State Department, and perhaps some say, still does!

At the end of the day, this drama is a result of the coup d'etat and what it was supposed to do. Divide and conquer. Judgment doesn't serve anyone but neither does this senseless division. It's our view at HLLN, Haiti is under occupation. We take no position as to elections-under-occupation and those who run for these seats. But, in terms of this split, we agree with Lavalas Parliamentarian Mme Norma Forte, as expressed in her Feb. 1st Press Release, where she asks for reconciliation between the two sides and Ezili's HLLN says further, not one Haitian child will be fed or get schooling or eat because of this Lavalas controversy. But the coup d'etat powers will be well fed off this. The UN will be given SOMETHING to "secure" as one can see from the press release sent out by France today announcing that this electoral commission's decision will lead to VIOLENCE. And the US and Canada will have something to "negotiate" as we see from the US and Canadian press releases where both these coup d'etat countries indicate that the total EXCLUSION of one party - the Lavalas party - from the upcoming April senate elections will put into question the legitimacy of the elections. It's been sort of calm and these folks haven't had much Haiti chaos to feed off of for a while, just Haitians dying of famine, and through collapsed schools, hurricane ravages, against the backdrop of news of USAID failures, foreign NGO's gleefully masturbating on the dependency, the UN raping and molesting Haitian children and a US embassy employee bilking the State Department for over 850,000 (notice that only the guilt and corruption of the VERY young, 25 year old Haitian employee at the US Embassy in Haiti is revealed or reported prosecuted in this "SCHEME to embezzle funds from the State Department," not the American masterminds working at the US Embassy and/or State Department who processed or took part in facilitating or sharing in the booty of the over 850,000 fraudulent cash advances. Go to: Former Employee at U.S. Embassy in Haiti Pleads Guilty to Theft of More Than $800,000).


Now this Haitian electoral council excluding the Lavalas party is just the chaos they need to distract folks from their uselessness and corrupt neocolonial role in Haiti. Haitian fratricide is a much more comfortable issue for these "do-good" missionaries and their USAID/US Embassy functionaries and the embedded media to sink their imperial teeth on - never showing that maintaining Haitian fratricide and images of the "fighting, incompetent Haitians" was the purpose of their coup detat/rendition in the first place.

Most folks in the international community in Haiti, making money with their studies of studies of more studies have to have a justification. And it's always that the people of Haiti, Haiti's masses are not to be taken seriously because they are not READY to rule themselves, that there is no LEADERSHIP in Haiti, the masses cannot govern, there needs to be bridge persons- Western-created TECHNICIANS- who can connect the masses to the elite. What that means is that the US/UN and coup d'etat countries will support those in Haiti who agree that Haiti should have politicians amenable to the international community and who are able to work as middlemen or, TECHNICIAN/TECHNOCRAT, absorbing and attracting the tensions created by 1% elite and their Western masters excluding the masses from the countries wealth.

Either way, ALL Haitian life is disposable in the neocolonial scheme. At the end of the day, the Haitian people who will die behind this Lavalas party split, will be those in the poor Haitian masses and poor neighborhoods. That lost of Haitian life to come behind this split is something HLLN will denounce and hold both factions responsible for for failing to find conciliation. In terms of the larger question of the CEP, its blanket denial of both the Lavalas slates, this gives further evidence that the Bush 2004 coup d'etat continues under the Preval's consolidated coup d'etat government or, in US-Regime-Change-parlance: Preval's "coalition" government. It evidences the arbitrary enforcement of laws as to the Lavalas political party.

For instance, current Senator Youri Latortue is well known as "Mr. 30%" for taking bribes and many of the other coup detat folks currently in the parliament ACTUALLY have corruption records, but the CEP never felt similarly inclined to disqualify coup d'etat folks with actual human rights abuse records... This is not about the rule of law, but destroying the remnants of the Lavalas Movement, destroying the Haitian revolution, which essentially was the purpose of the Bush 2004 coup d'etat in the first place.

*The two sides must come together and not give the CEP an excuse to exclude the people. The good of the Haitian people should come first. But is the split - the two slates of candidates, virtually the same but for three submissions - the real reason the CEP excluded all the Fanmi Lavalas candidates? Or, are they not claiming that Aristide must, from exile, SIGN the papers? Which is it? The CEP should make itself clear. The CEP didn't make such a request for Aristide's authentication during the 2006 presidential and parliamentary elections. Back then, the embattled Famili Lavalas party boycotted the elections but a minority sector of Fanmi Lavalas ran in the parliamentary elections and ran Marc Bazin as its presidential candidate (in coalition as Fanmi Lavalas and under the banner of Union Pou Haiti). There were no issues then raised as to this minority's authority to use the Fanmi Lavalas name, why is there one now? Why this request now for Aristide's authentication of the slate of candidates?

Furthermore, this CEP's exclusion also evidences its capricious and political nature in that other candidates, like Ronald St. Jean, who do not belong to the Fanmi Lavalas political party, but who stood against the lies and coup d'etat propaganda of NCHR and Pierre Esperance, have also been EXCLUDED by the CEP. Ronald St. Jean registered as an independent candidate for the West. His candidacy was excluded as well as that of all the Fanmi Lavalas 16 candidates (Jocelyn Privert who would have made it 17 candidates in total submitted by the two factions and who was on the Neptune submission list, apparently registered "indeprendent.") There may be and probably are others like Ronald St. Jean similarly arbitrarily knocked off the ballot and from running for office in the Senate. This is not acceptable either. We don't know about all the others so arbitrarily, without apparent legal cause, who were also excluded by this coup d'etat CEP, but Ronald St. Jean has never before been accused of a crime or certainly has never been convicted of one, why was he also summarily excluded.

What? Because he debunked the lies of the coup d'etat NCHR on their La Scierie massacre? We speak up against this exclusion also. Yet and still, those in the two Lavalas factions MUST show some leadership and come to a consensus for the GOOD OF THE PEOPLE they claim to represent. Otherwise, they give the CEP its excuse of exclude and disenfranchise the largest sector of the Haitian population and that is not acceptable.


Ezili Dantò/HLLN
Feb. 7, 2009
* This paragraph added to original on Feb. 9, 2009
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[ezilidanto] Haiti bars Aristide allies, former rebel who helped oust him, from running for Senate | Divisions in Aristide's Lavalas party sharp
Saturday, February 7, 2009 7:23 AM
From: rwalker
To: erzilidanto@yahoo.com

Thank you for the very informative answer. As Dr. Nkrumah observed: "Thus far, all the methods of neo-colonialists have pointed in one direction, the ancient, accepted one of all minority ruling classes throughout history divide and rule.

"Quite obviously, therefore, unity is the first requisite for destroying neo-colonialism. Primary and basic is the need for an all-union government on the much divided continent of Africa. Along with that, a strengthening of the Afro-Asian Solidarity Organisation and the spirit of Bandung is already under way. To it, we must seek the adherence on an increasingly formal basis of our Latin American brothers." Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah

Roy Walker
www.panafricanperspective.com

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Re: [ezilidanto] Questions to Ezili Dantò on Lavalas split. A more detailed Dantò answer
Monday, February 9, 2009 12:49 PM
From: wallace

Thank you for the explanation of the split in Lavalas and the ongoing events in Haiti. As you know the mass media has blacked out all of this news.

Wallace-Mexico City

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--- On Sat, 2/7/09, erzilidanto@yahoo.com <erzilidanto@yahoo.com> wrote:

[ezilidanto] 12-year old Haitian supposedly bilked 850,000 out of the US State Department? Where are the investigative journalists of this world? Where'sthe Congressional inquiries/oversight when GRAND theft at US Embassy in Haiti is blamed on a Haitian teenager!!!


"...It's been sort of calm and these folks haven't had much Haiti chaos to
feed off of for a while, just Haitians dying of famine, and through collapsed
schools, hurricane ravages, against the backdrop of news of USAID failures,
foreign NGO's gleefully masturbating on the dependency, the UN raping and
molesting Haitian children and a US embassy employee bilking the State
Department for over 850,000 (notice that only the guilt and corruption of the VERY young, 25 year old Haitian employee at the US Embassy in Haiti is revealed or reported prosecuted in this "SCHEME to embezzle funds from the State Department," not the American masterminds working at the US Embassy and/or State Department who processed or took part in facilitating or sharing in the booty of the over 850,000 fraudulent cash advances."
Go to: Former Employee at U.S. Embassy in Haiti Pleads Guilty to Theft of More Than $800,000).

Ezili,
This article on the Saint-Joy person has him working from 1996-present, if he is now 25 that would mean he was 12 when he started working?? Interesting times to say the least. My best, Jean-Paul

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ARTICLE IN QUESTION:
Former Employee at U.S. Embassy in Haiti Pleads Guilty to Theft of More Than $800,000

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A former employee at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti pleaded guilty today to one count of theft for stealing morethan $800,000 from the U.S. Department of State, Acting Assistant Attorney General Rita M. Glavin of the Criminal Division announced.


According to court documents, Jean G. Saint-Joy, 25, a/k/a Gary Saint-Joy,
a/k/a Garry Saint-Joy, a citizen of Haiti, was employed as a cashier by the
U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from approximately 1995 until July
2008.

Beginning in approximately 2003 and continuing until early 2008, Saint-Joy
admitted he engaged in a scheme to embezzle funds from the State Department.

As part of this scheme, Saint-Joy admitted he submitted and caused to be
submitted false and fraudulent documents to the State Department claiming that he required reimbursement for the payment of legitimate embassy expenses.

According to court documents, Saint-Joy illegally obtained approximately
$428,639 from the State Department as a result of the scheme. Saint-Joy also
admitted he provided and caused to be provided false and fraudulent requests
for cash advances from the embassy's cash advance accounts with two banks in Port-au-Prince. According to court documents, Saint-Joy illegally obtained
approximately $50,000 from one account and approximately $371,627 from the
other account. The total amount of Saint-Joy's theft was approximately
$849,000.

The charge to which Saint-Joy pleaded guilty carries a maximum penalty of 10
years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000. Sentencing was scheduled for
May 26, 2009.

The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorneys Ethan H. Levisohn and Marc
Levin of the Criminal Division's Public Integrity Section, which is headed by
William M. Welch, II. The case was investigated by the Office of Inspector
General for the U.S. Department of State.

SOURCE U.S. Department of Justice
PRNewswire-USNewswire

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Third Lavalas faction - are they Fanmi Lavalas?

HLLN has previously reported on the Fanmi Lavalas spit where two sectors identifying themselves as authorities for Haiti's largest political party, presented two different slates of candidates to the electoral council (CEP) for the upcoming April 2009 Senate elections in Haiti. Both slates where rejected and after protest asking for inclusion and participation from the US, France Canada, OAS and the differing sides themselves, Haiti's Electoral Council afforded a right to appeal, which expired on Friday, Feb. 13, 2009 without resolution. The intervening authority
to act as the sole National Representative of the Fanmi Lavalas party submitted by Maryse Narcisse was rejected by the CEP.

The interesting new development is that a third Lavalas faction (the "Parliamentarians") entered the scene last Friday on Feb. 13, after the appeal time span for candidate submissions to Haiti's electoral board had expired, with their public statement entitled "Rezolisyon Fanmi Lavalas nan kad Patisipasyon" (copied below and signed by Sénateur Yvon Buisreth, Députe Paul Olivar Richard, Députe Boisrond Jean Roland, Députe Pierre Jérôme Valcine, and Députe Jonas Coffy). This third voice, third Fanmi Lavalas faction, was given 72-hours (until Monday Feb. 16, 2009 at 4pm) by Haiti's electoral council (CEP) to provide:

1. A unified list of 12 Fanmi Lavalas candidates, and
2. Proof of their authority as Fanmi Lavalas

Ezili's HLLN has been informed by our folks on the ground in Haiti that they've come up with a list of twelve. The contested four within the 2 Lavalas lists submitted came from Grand'Anse, the West and the North. We are informed that all the candidates on the
Maryse Narcisse List have been adopted by the Parliamentarians, except for one change. Pléteau Larousse was chosen instead of Dr. Gerald Gilles to represent Grand' Anse and the other two from the second slate of Lavalas, the Yvon Neptune/Yves Cristalin faction (Phélito Doran, Chena Pierre Martial and Bell Angelot), rejected.

The question remains : are these Parliamentarians honest brokers, recognized mediators? Are they Fanmi Lavalas, MIDH or Union Pou Ayiti? They are saying that though they went to the 2006 elections under the Union Pou Haiti banner, the symbol they used and which the people recognized was a "table." "Bò tab la" - the table, is the recognized symbol of Fanmi Lavalas. The logic we are told is they were elected as "Fanmi Lavalas" and so are officially "elected Fanmi Lavalas representatives" and so that's their authority to act as the legitimate representatives of Fanmi Lavalas.

Will this consensus hold? Or, will the four candidates who are removed sucessfully contest? Better yet, will Maryse Narcisse who claims authority as National Leader of the Fanmi Lavalas political party through an April 2004 power-of-attorney, supposedly executed by President Aristide while in Jamaica, contest these Union Pou Ayiti's candidates' authority as Fanmi Lavalas? (See, L’opposition au Dr Maryse Narcisse au sein de Fanmi lavalas met en doute l’authenticité d’un mandat de Jean Bertrand Aristide qu’elle a déposé au CEP, February 10, 2009, Radio Kiskeya ). The CEP rejected Narcisse's authority as "unauthenticated."

The coup d'etat's division drama continues....or, hopefully will be put to rest on Monday, Feb. 16 with an acceptable solution.
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This distraction isn't feeding anyone. We know the US and international community, currently running Haiti, will accept these "Fanmi Lavalas" parliamentarians who went to elections when the official Fanmi Lavalas boycotted the elections. We know that it was after the visit of US Ambassador Janet A. Sanderson last Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009 that the CEP gave THIS coup d'etat Lavalas faction 72 hours to submit information.... At this point Ezili's HLLN would hope, this manufactured conflict seemingly centered on questioning Fanmi Lavalas authority previously not required in the 2006 elections is just put to rest. But if it is that would mean the international community, which pays for these bogus elections-under-occupation in Haiti, and need something to "negotiate" to maintain their existence in "unstable" Haiti, won't have any meaty chaos to feed off of and justify their existence in Haiti. Some observers say that the CEP won't even hold these senate elections in April 2009 and that this is just manufactured news to distract from the pressing humanitarian crisis issues of famine, US inhumane deportations and the uselessness to storm-ravaged Haiti of the foreign NGOs, UN and USAID collecting checks but exacerbating relief and sustainable development in Haiti.

At the end of the day, the four candidates that are excluded may need to accept the turn of events. That is, this time, being outmaneuvered by the US and international community is partly the two warring Lavalas sector's fault for not putting their house in order in the first place and work to get their besieged political party in order for the next turn. It's time to exercise LIDECHIP, that means understanding there's no luxury of a Fanmi Lavalas split not being to the ultimate advantaged of the imperialist agenda. For the people of Haiti, it is smart to simply work with what's in your hands as Haitians have ALWAYS done. Besides, in our opinion at HLLN, elections-under-occupation, as we've constantly said is a LOSERS' gambit.

Folks, you know we here at Ezili's HLLN like to UNDERSTAND what's happening. It's our understanding that the group of parliamentarians who intervene were the minority Lavalas sector who went to the 2006 elections when Fanmi Lavalas, Haiti's most popular political was under siege after the Bush regime change that ousted democratically elected President Aristide of Fanmi Lavalas and the party's supporters were being hunted down and slaughtered by Bush's Boca Raton regime behind US/UN firepower, and so officially Fanmi Lavalas, Haiti's most powerful political party, had boycotted the 2006 elections. Apparently these Fanmi Lavalas parliamentarian folks, now intervening in the name of "Fanmi Lavalas", went to the 2006 elections under the banner of "Union Pou Haiti" with former World Bank's Marc Bazin as their presidential candidate. Our Haiti correspondents relay that Union Pou Haiti is a coalition of MIDH (Mouvement pour l'Instauration de la Démocratie en Haïti) with these minority Fanmi Lavalas parliamentarians.

A quick search on the 2006 elections reveal that:
"...Bazin is a former Minister of Finance and Economy under the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier, and has also served as an official for the World Bank. In the 1990 elections Bazin received 14% of the votes, losing out to Jean-Bertrand Aristide. During the temporary coup d'état that replaced Aristide in 1991, Bazin was selected as the Prime Minister.

Bazin is a conservative politician who has sought to bring foreign investment into Haiti. For the 2006 elections he is running in an alliance with his MIDH (Mouvement pour l'Instauration de la Démocratie en Haïti) party and the popular Fanmi Lavalas.[9] Bazin has been a bitter enemy of Aristide so it is somewhat surprising that this alliance has formed. There is evidence on the basis of Freedom of Information Act requests in the USA that the United States federal budget funded International Republican Institute (IRI) was involved in Bazin's campaign and has more generally been widely involved in organising political parties in Haiti. [10] Fanmi Lavalas officially refused to take part in the elections and very few FL officials supported Bazin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_ge

neral_election,_2006#Marc_Bazin"

We shall continue our update as new information becomes available. (Check this link on the website for the latest info
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HLLN
February 16, 2009

*UPDATE: On Feb. 16, 12 Lavalas "consensus candidates" where submitted by the third faction, the Lavalas Parliamentarians, and all of the Maryse Narcisse candidates were included, except for one change. Pléteau Larousse was chosen instead of Dr. Gerald Gilles to represent Grand' Anse. A certain Emmanuel Cantave was designated as the Fanmi Lavalas party's new national representative, instead of Maryse Narcisse or any member of the second faction. On Feb. 17th the Haitian electoral Council rendered a decision again rejecting all the Fanmi Lavalas candidates. The electoral officials said The Lavalas Family Party failed to submit papers from former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide authorizing the party's list of Senate candidates submitted by the Parliamentarians. (See, Haiti's biggest party banned from Senate race). In a note released from Maryse Narcisse on Feb. 16, 2009 and dated, Feb. 15, President Jean Betrand Aristide, allegedly called the upcoming Senate elections a sham and refused to "legitimize this prolongation of the Feb. 29, 2004 coup d'état" against him by endorsing any of the 16 candidates from the two vying factions proposed for the 12 vacant Senate seats. This implies that neither Maryse Narcisse nor the Neptune faction had the blessings of Aristide to go the the elections in the first place. For Maryse Narcisse, who had categorically refused to participate in the consensus discussions with the Parliamentarians, it's worst as she provided the CEP with a mandate, allegedly signed by Aristide in April 2004, to say she had the necessary authority and blessings of Aristide to put forth a slate of candidates. The net effect of this note from Aristide is that the people's mobilization to fight against the CEP exclusion of Fanmi Lavalas in the upcoming election may be non-existent. In fact, by Monday night, Feb. 16, most of the MINUSTAH/UN troops guarding the CEP were withdrawn because all the demonstrators had gone home.


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Mediating? Third Lavalas Faction (or, is it "Union For Haiti"), enters the scene on Feb. 13, 2009, CEP gives them 72hours to unify list of 12 candidates and provide authority to act on behalf of Fanmi Lavalas Party:

Resolution Fanmi Lavalas
Friday, February 13, 2009


Monsieur Frantz - Gérard S. VERRET
Président du Conseil Electoral Provisoire
En ses bureaux.


Rezolisyon Fanmi Lavalas nan kad Patisipasyon

Òganizasyon an nan eleksyon 19 avril 2009

Lè nou konsidere nan ki kafou danjere Òganizasyon Fanmi Lavalas ye

Lè nou konsidere delè KEP bay kap bout vandredi 13 fevrye 2009 .

Lè nou konsidere lèt 10 fevrye 2009 ke KEP a voye bay doktè Maryse Narcise.

Lè nou konsidere tout rezèv, KEP a genyen sou kalite ak valè, papye 27 avril 2004 la.

Lè nou konsidere pozisyon tèt rèd kèk manm ki gen reskonsablite anndan Fanmi Lavalas e ki refize tout dyalòg pou jwenn yon tèt ansanm.

Lè nou konsidere konfyans ak atant majorite Pèp Aysyen an genyen sou Òganizasyon Fanmi Lavalas, ki vle e ki dwe patisipe nan eleksyon senatoryal avril 2009 yo.

Lè nou konsidere nesesite pou Fanmi Lavalas kontinye batay pou revandikasyon 16 desanm 90 yo.

Lè nou konsidere nesesite pou Fanmi Lavalas kontinye òganize l epi remanbre l nan mete kanpe tout Ti Fanmi ak kowòdinasyon yo nan tout 10 depatman peyi a ak lòt bò dlo.

Lè nou konsidere ke se sèl nan eleksyon Fanmi Lavalas toujou pran pouvwa


Konsa, nou menm Palmantè Fanmi Lavalas, òganizatè, kad, baz fanmi lavalas, patizan ak senpatizan Fanmi Lavalas reyini nan jounen jedi 12 Fevriye 2009 la, nan otèl Vila Senlwi, nou deside :

1. Fanmi Lavalas pral nan eleksyon 19 Avril 2009 yo.

2. Renouvle konfyans Òganizasyon Fanmi Lavalas nan menm moun ki te konn siyen atestasyon pou kandida Fanmi Lavalas depi eleksyon 1997 yo epi reprezante Fanmi Lavalas devan KEP a, k ap apwouve par : Ekip Reskonsab Tètansanm pou Kondi Annatandan Zafè Òganizasyon Fanmi Lavalas.

3. Nan 72 zè k ap vini yo, Fanmi LAvalas ap prezante lis 12 kandida l yo, pami 16* ki te enskri pou patisipe nan eleksyon 19 avril yo.

Pou respè Fanmi Lavalas genyen pou Pèp ayisyen, nan inite pou retou fizik, Prezidan Jean Bertrand Aristide ak sousi pou kore batay Pèp Aysyen an pou yon lavi miyò, nou kònen lanbi rasanbleman an, pou tout manm fanmi lavalas nan 10 depatman peyi a tankou lòt bo dlo pou fè yon sèl pou nou genyen eleksyon 19 Avril 2009 yo.

Fouchèt divizyon pa bwè soup eleksyon

Yon sèl nou fèb, ansanm nou fò, ansanm ansanm nou se Lavalas.

Otèl Vila Senlwi, Boudon, 12 fevriye 2009.

Moun ki siyen :


Sénateur Yvon Buisreth

Députe Paul Olivar Richard

Députe Boisrond Jean Roland

Députe Pierre Jérôme Valcine


Députe Jonas Coffy

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Port-au-Prince, le 12 février 2009.

Monsieur Frantz - Gérard S. VERRET
Président du Conseil Electoral Provisoire
En ses bureaux.


Monsieur le Président,

Faisant suite à la Réunion du 12 février 2009 à l'Hôtel Villa Saint Louis, nous, Parlementaires, Cadres et Bases de l'Organisation Fanmi Lavalas, avons décidé de prendre cette Résolution portant sur l'entente trouvée entre les différents membres de Fanmi Lavalas.

En conséquence, nous, Parlementaires de l'Organisation Fanmi Lavalas, avons l'honneur de transmettre au Conseil Electoral Provisoire la Résolution du 12 février 2009 : Rezolisyon Fanmi Lavalas nan kad patisipasyon Òganizasyon an nan eleksyon 19 avril 2009, pour toutes suites que de droit.

Nous vous prions, Monsieur le Président, d'agréer l'expression de nos sentiments les meilleurs.


Sénateur Yvon Buisreth

Députe Paul Olivar Richard

Députe Boisrond Jean Roland

Députe Pierre Jérôme Valcine

Députe Jonas Coffy

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*Two list were given to the CEP of Lavalas candidates containing the same candidates except for four areas (one in the Neptune list -Jocelyn Privert, registered independent and not under Fanmi Lavalas. The four candidates different on the two list, are as follows:

Grand' Anse - Dr Gérald Gilles (Narcisse List) - Pléteau Larousse (Neptune and Yves Cristalin List)

West - Dr Schiller Louidor (Narcisse List) - Phélito Dorant (Neptune List)

Nord - M. Nawoon Marcellus (Narcisse List) - Bell Angelot (Neptune List)

Northeast -M. Fritz-Gérald Rozéfort (Narcisse List) - Chena Pierre Martial (Neptune List)

According to this mediating sector, of the four above a consensus will be reached and 12 candidates will be presented on Monday, Feb. 16, 2009 within the 72 hours time-span accorded by the CEP.

*UPDATE: On Feb. 16, 12 Lavalas "consensus candidates" where submitted by the third faction, the Lavalas Parliamentarians, and all of the Maryse Narcisse candidates were included, except for one change. Pléteau Larousse was chosen instead of Dr. Gerald Gilles to represent Grand' Anse. A certain Emmanuel Cantave was designated as the Fanmi Lavalas party's new national representative, instead of Maryse Narcisse or any member of the second faction. On Feb. 17th the Haitian electoral Council rendered a decision again rejecting all the Fanmi Lavalas candidates. The electoral officials said The Lavalas Family Party failed to submit papers from former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide authorizing the party's list of Senate candidates submitted by the Parliamentarians. (See, Haiti's biggest party banned from Senate race). In a note released from Maryse Narcisse on Feb. 16, 2009 and dated, Feb. 15, President Jean Betrand Aristide, allegedly called the upcoming Senate elections a sham and refused to "legitimize this prolongation of the Feb. 29, 2004 coup d'état" against him by endorsing any of the 16 candidates from the two vying factions proposed for the 12 vacant Senate seats. This implies that neither Maryse Narcisse nor the Neptune faction had the blessings of Aristide to go the the elections in the first place. For Maryse Narcisse, who had categorically refused to participate in the consensus discussions with the Parliamentarians, it's worst as she provided the CEP with a mandate, allegedly signed by Aristide in April 2004, to say she had the necessary authority and blessings of Aristide to put forth a slate of candidates. The net effect of this note from Aristide is that the people's mobilization to fight against the CEP exclusion of Fanmi Lavalas in the upcoming election may be non-existent. In fact, by Monday night, Feb. 16, most of the MINUSTAH/UN troops guarding the CEP were withdrawn because all the demonstrators had gone home.


*List From the
Parliamentarians delivered to the CEP: Les nouveaux candidats du parti seraient donc : l’ex-directeur de la police judiciaire Schiller Louidor (Ouest), l’ancien Député Nawoon Marcellus (Nord), Fritz Gérald Rozéfort (Nord-Est), Dorsaint Ethéart (Nord-Est), Flaubert Duroseau (Nord-Ouest), Serge Delva Gaspard (Nippes, sud-ouest), Billy Racine et l’ex-Député Amanus Mayette (Artibonite, nord), l’ancien Sénateur Simon Dieuseul Dera (Centre), Pléteau Larousse (Grand’Anse, sud-ouest), Presler Paul (Sud-est) et l’ex-Délégué départemental Jacques Mathelier (Sud). (See: Des élus du parti inscrivent 12 candidats et désignent un nouveau représentant mandaté auprès du CEP alors que Jean-Bertrand Aristide dénonce un "processus de coup d’Etat en cours| Radio Kiskeya, Fe. 16, 2009)
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Unauthenticated: To Zabeth on Lettre ouverte des douze candidats de Fanmi Lavalas

On Fri, 2/13/09, zili danto <erzilidanto@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: zili danto <erzilidanto@yahoo.com>
Subject: To Zabeth on Lettre ouverte des douze candidats de Fanmi Lavalas
To: Zabeth
Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 10:39 AM

Zabeth,

Can't you see how absolutely counterproductive this conflict is. The CEP has indicated, as it should rightly do, that Narcisse's authorization is not authenticated.

Zabeth, you know Aristide won't intervene. You KNOW both of the factions are ALONE, just like my people have been ALONE since this coup d'etat. This document you just sent Zabeth, signed by the 12 candidates is utterly ridiculous, utterly. First to talk of Pont Rouge then end with JEHOVAH!!!! after citing Victor Hugo??? Are you people that un-intelligent and without Haitian pride??? I'm so appalled, my people deserve BETTER.

Again, I urge one and all to find CONSENSUS, put the two candidate slates TOGETHER and let the people decide who to vote for. I was under the impression that the Lavalas party was about inclusion and PARTICIPATION.

Narcisse's authority is not binding on any Lavalas militant, her so-call power of attorney doesn't meet legal formalities. As I've already indicated, this document purporting to give Maryse Narcisse the leadership of the Fanmi Lavalas political party does not hold legal weight, is voidable and is silly in these non-emergency times besides all other observations. We have previously, for the last four years, been informed that Ms. Narcisse was the "spokesperson" for President Aristide.

How did Ms. Narcisse jump to "LEADER" legally occur? This un-witnessed-by-any-notary-power-of-attorney, with no expiration date, lacks the legal formalities, as well as the necessary transparent and participatory criteria to meet the spirit of any collective endeavor for expressing the interest of a national political party. This un-validated and blanket document has so many flaws that a first year law student could void it. The 5-year time span between when it was written in April 2004 and now presented in February 2009 brings into question whether the intention of the donor still remains the same, especially as there is an intervening document giving Ms Narcisse authority simply as "spokesperson" isn't there? So why was that necessary if this already existed. You people are EMBARASSING and again I say, my people DESERVE better!

Was this document, purportedly issued in Jamaica in April of 2004, unilaterally made, ever domesticated in Haiti, ever presented, recorded in Haiti and accepted by the authorized members of Fanmi Lavalas or ratified by the Fanmi Lavalas CHARTER rules in order that it may reasonably hold legal weight in Haiti? Is this what Ms. Narcisse is claiming GIVES her the legal right to RUN a political party!!!! Zabeth, this is the first occassion where I've had to speak truth to your camp and allow me to say: Aristide pakapab repond "presan" lè li pa la. Pakapab genyen on koudetat ènten paske LI PA LA!!!!! Lè li retounen la repran si se sa organizatyon an vle. Men kounyela VERITE a se, mas pèp an Ayiti lan MENTI, Aristide lan lye verite l. Li manje chak jou e li gen yon kote pou li domi. Pèp pa mwen lan BESWEN ki di anpil, anpil....

He's not in Haiti Zabeth, hasn't been in Haiti since Feb. 29, 2004. Those are facts. Yes, he was kidnapped out of Haiti. Life ain't fair. But that's the Haitian struggle we've inherited. The real issue as I see it is that, as I understand it the party has no provision in its charter for succession when the leader becomes incapacitated, so, Zabeth PUT ONE in there!!! What's so difficult about this, Gather both faction, put the PEOPLE FIRST, not your egos, agree together and PRONTO and have a national congress later - That would show some LIDECHIP!!!!

For now, my advice to one and all, and I am only bothering because of all the folks Ezili's HLLN has DEFENDED who got slaughtered for even supporting LAVALAS. In their memory I write here, otherwise, I'd say you all deserve to be marginalized if this is an example of your LIDECHIP. I wasn't around before. But Nou La now and this is ridiculous. First going to election while Haiti is under occupation, in my opinion, is a LOSERS game. Anyone interested in the PEOPLE's welfare should be helping them to EAT, have housing, health care, and mobilizing for their LIBERTY. But if elections is what you folks want to go to, than it's not that complicated, just gather both sides of this split, put both candidates slates together, sign ONE presentation to the CEP, in the preamble let them know you ALL are in agreement, that together you represent Fanmi Lavalas, that Aristide is in exile and cannot sign for anyone, and that you've made a provisions of succession and here it is, and be DONE with this. Zabeth, the peoples business AWAITS. They are dying of Klorox hunger while you Lavalas folks are doing EXACTLY what the coup d'etat people have been doing, trying to get POWER - the people can't EAT, Zabeth. Take care of this minor succession and electoral business so you all can actually ADDRESS the people's urgent concerns. Ezili's HLLN is interested to know what the platform of these candidates are, how they will create jobs, reforestation, food, fuel and meet the PEOPLES needs. All this other yang ying is besides the point.

Ezili Dantò/HLLN
February 13, 2009


*(Article 32 of the Fanmi Lavalas Charter (La Loi Mere) - previews an Executive Committee to take over if the head of the party dies or leaves the post. No terms are stated if he's in exile or incapacitated and it appears the Lavalas authorities have yet to accept being in exile means he's "left" his post. Hence, the Narcisse April 27, 2004 derivative authority from Aristide as the National Representative of Fanmi Lavalas political party is presented to the CEP.)

"Atik 32
Depi Reprezantan nasyonal la mouri oubyen li kite pòs la, plas la lib. Lè sa a, Komite ekzekitif la antann li avèk Kowòdinasyon nasyonal la pou li ranplase li anvan si (6) mwa. Pandan tan sa a, se Komite ekzekitif la ki kenbe plas la."


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Port-au-Prince le 11 février 2009

Lettre ouverte des douze candidats de Fanmi Lavalas
Au
Président du Conseil Electoral Provisoire


M. Gabriel Veret
Président du Conseil Electoral Provisoire
En ses bureaux

Mr le Président,

Lorsque le 5 février 2009, l’Institution que vous dirigez, a décidé d’exclure Fanmi Lavalas des prochaines compétitions sénatoriales en renvoyant sans sourciller nos douze candidatures, soumises à vous légalement par le Dr Maryse Narcisse, coordonatrice du Comité Exécutif, mandatée par le Chef de Fanmi Lavalas, le Président Jean Bertrand Aristide, l’on se disait que ce nouveau plan macabre d’exclure la grande majorité du Peuple Haytien allait à l’encontre de toute logique démocratique. Car, M. le Président, disqualifier tout un ensemble de candidats sur la base de leur appartenance à un parti, revient à disqualifier toute une masse de potentiels électeurs, ce qui est une flagrante violation des droits civils et politiques d’une classe majoritaire dans ce Pays, considérant ce que même nos adversaires et pourfendeurs s’accordent à reconnaitre que l’Organisation Fanmi Lavalas est le parti politique le plus puissant de ce Pays.

Hélas, c’était oublier naïvement, l’espace d’un moment, l’histoire de ce Pays où l’apartheid social et politique a toujours été la toile de fond de cette société exclusiviste, depuis le parricide du Pont-Rouge, commis le 17 octobre 1806, en passant par le sanglant coup d’Etat du 30 septembre 1991 pour aboutir au kidnapping du 29 février 2004, ayant vu des leaders de partis politiques, des responsables d’une soi-disant société civile taillée a l’aune de leurs préjugés de classe et de race, se mettre ensemble, avec la complicité d’anciennes puissances coloniales racistes, pour financer des mercenaires afin de renverser un Président élu démocratiquement et l’embarquer de force à bord d’un avion pour une destination jusque là inconnue par le kidnappé, Leader de Parti, Chef d’Etat en fonction, investi de la confiance de la grande majorité du Peuple haytien.

M. le Président, nous avons fini par comprendre que cette décision du CEP entre dans le cadre des comportements sociopolitiques qui ont banalisé les coups d’état, légalisé l’exil des citoyens, exclu la majorité des haïtiens de l’exercice de leurs droits civils et politiques, mais rappelez vous que des élections sans Fanmi Lavalas ne seraient qu’une farce, une vaste comédie que nous vous invitons à éviter au Peuple Haytien, assoiffé de joutes électorales inclusives et normales, devant lui donner l’occasion de faire entendre sa voix trop souvent étouffée.

Les fallacieux prétextes que vous invoquez pour nous disqualifier ne cadrent pas avec les lois de ce Pays : la décision du CEP est contre la lettre et l’esprit de la loi électorale, elle est illégale et inconstitutionnelle . La disqualification d’un candidat ou d’un électeur sur la base de son appartenance politique ne fait pas partie de la Loi Electorale ou de la Constitution de 1987.

Le prétexte du mandat du Représentant Légal de Fanmi Lavalas, en l’occurrence le Dr Jean Bertrand Aristide, que vous avancez, malgré le reçu délivré par le CEP au Dr Maryse Narcisse, à laquelle nous sommes vivement solidaires, révèle clairement cette volonté d’exclusion. Et votre dernière correspondance au Dr Maryse Narcisse, lui enjoignant d’authentifier le mandat réclamé et obtenu, ne rentre pas dans vos attributions légales, car selon les lois haytiennes, plus précisément le Code Civil haytien en son article 1749, alinéa 8, « le législateur n’a pas assujetti à la formalité du mandat authentique la procuration à fin de déclaration de pourvoi qui peut être donnée dans l’une des formes de l’art. 1749C. Une procuration donnée par lettre missive est donc suffisante et n’a pas besoin d’être légalisée. »

Certes vous allez vous cacher derrière le Droit International pour avancer des arguties tentant de justifier cette machination machiavélique dont votre Institution est la principale instigatrice, instrument de ces élites qui n’ont pas hésité à crier dès le lendemain de ce rejet global : Alea jacta est. Mais M. le Responsable, chose si facile à dire mais l’assumer c’est toute autre chose.

Votre complicité dans cette nouvelle crise qui s’annonce est connue de tous, en témoigne cet appel téléphonique d’un membre influent du Conseil Electoral à un dissident lavalas d’aller s’inscrire parallèlement à un candidat lavalas régulier, le jeudi 22 janvier entre midi et 1h pm, le contraignant pratiquement de ce faire, dans le dessein pervers de préparer la voie à cet acte arbitraire. La technologie peut nous permettre de retracer facilement cet appel, exemple de cette perversion et de cette dérive dont votre Institution s’en trouve être le principal moteur. Et nous nous mettons à la disposition de la Justice de notre Pays pour apporter toutes les précisions pour faire valoir ce que de droit, car le mot du Droit est de notre coté.

M. le Président du CEP, comme vous voulez donner l’impression d’un CEP légaliste et souverain, en témoigne votre réaction suite aux notes de presse d’Ambassades étrangères vous enjoignant de revenir sur votre décision impopulaire de renvoyer Fanmi Lavalas de ces joutes sénatoriales, pourquoi ne pas alors entreprendre des démarches appelant à corriger cette violation flagrante de la Constitution perpétrée avec l’embarquement forcé d’un Chef d’Etat dans l’exercice de ses fonctions, suite à une insurrection armée financée et orchestrée par des leaders de partis politiques et quelques extrémistes de droite du secteur privé haytien ? Un président élu sous l’égide des lois haytiennes .


En effet, pourquoi ne pas exiger la rentrée immédiate dans son Pays du Représentant National de Fanmi Lavalas, le Dr Jean Bertrand Aristide, pour qu’il vienne authentifier ce mandat octroyé au Dr Maryse Narcisse dans une situation de cas de force majeure, « afin de prendre toutes les dispositions nécessaires à la bonne marche et au bon fonctionnement du Parti.»

Mr le Président, nous vous reconnaissons un mâle courage de vous être dressé face à la colère légitime du Peuple Haytien et aussi face aux appréhensions apparemment sincères de la Communauté Internationale, mais pourquoi ne pas vous armer, encore plus, de courage pour reconnaitre que ce plan concocté par vous et par d’autres nébuleuses ingrates sous l’emprise desquelles vous semblez fonctionner, est vicié à la base. Car l’exil du Leader National Jean Bertrand Aristide est la véritable pierre d’achoppement à cette entreprise démocratique et c’est pourquoi finalement nous vous conseillons de réclamer plutôt le retour immédiat du Représentant Légal de Fanmi Lavalas, afin de corriger cet état de fait.

Monsieur, rappelez-vous, pour finir, que l’Homme, en général, qu’il soit blanc, jaune ou noir et quelque soit son degré d’évolution, ne peut souffrir de l’injustice. Ses réactions dans l’ordre des faits peuvent varier suivant ses amertumes.. Mais par tous les moyens en son pouvoir, il cherchera à briser l’entrave qui l’empêche de s’épanouir. Rappelez aussi à tous vos collègues que, s’ils insistent et persistent dans cette voie illégale et arbitraire, le Peuple Haytien, comme eut à dire l’autre, aura un jour à gémir de ces fers que vous essayez de lui forger et les générations futures auront un jour à exécrer votre mémoire comme instrument de honte. De multiples manifestations populaires sont réalisées, au sein de Fanmi Lavalas, pour exprimer notre désir et volonté d’obtenir des autorités établies le retour à l’Ordre normal des choses : le retour de Jean Bertrand Aristide dans son Pays, car, pour répéter ce grand écrivain français Victor Hugo, l’exil est la nudité du Droit. Un droit dépouillé de son essence fondamentale, la liberté de l’Homme.


L’Action de choisir ses représentants à travers des élections libres, honnêtes et démocratiques est décrite par la Constitution de 1987 comme étant l’Exercice de la Souveraineté Nationale et du droit d’un peuple à disposer de lui-même. Sur ce, M. le Président du Conseil Electoral, il ne nous reste qu’à vous saluer au nom de la Patrie Commune et souhaiter fructueuse besogne à vous et à vos impartiaux collègues.

Que le Grand Jéhovah et les Dieux tutélaires de la race bénissent Hayti, Quisqueya ou Bohio.


Dr Schiller Louidor - Département de l’Ouest

M. Nawoon Marcellus - Département du Nord

Dr Flaubert Jean Jacques Duroseau - Département du Nord’Ouest

M. Fritz-Gérald Rozéfort - Département du Nord’Est

M. Ethéart Dorsaint - Département du Nord’Est

Dr Billy Racine - Département de l’Artibonite

M. Amanus Mayette - Département de l’Artibonite

M. Simon Dieuseul Desras - Département du Centre

M. Presler Paul - Département du Sud’Est

M. Serge Delva Gaspard - Département des Nippes

M. Jacques Mathelier - Département du Sud

Dr Louis Gérald Gilles - Département de la Grand’Anse

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PS- Pour authentification, contactez Maitre Simon Dieuseul Desras (38262040), ou le Dr Louis Gerald Gilles (38051091), candidats aux Sénatoriales d’avril 2009.

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L’opposition au Dr Maryse Narcisse au sein de Fanmi lavalas met en doute l’authenticité d’un mandat de Jean Bertrand Aristide qu’elle a déposé au CEP

Cette "aile" de Lavalas appelle au consensus en vue du fonctionnement du parti selon sa charte, ses statuts et ses règlements

mardi 10 février 2009,
Radio Kiskeya

Note d’information
L’équipe responsable de consensus de la gestion provisoire de l’organisation Fanmi Lavalas informe tous les organisateurs, membres de Fanmi Lavalas et le public en général qu’elle a obtenu de façon officieuse la copie d’un papier prétendu être un mandat émis par le Représentant National, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, déposé au Conseil Electoral Provisoire qui viserait à satisfaire les exigences de l’institution sur la question d’attestation des candidats de l’organisation Fanmi Lavalas.

L’Equipe responsable de consensus s’abstient de tout commentaire, vu qu’il revient au Conseil Electoral Provisoire de déterminer l’authenticité et la validité de ce « document » et de prendre toutes les dispositions y relatives.

L’Equipe responsable de consensus de la gestion provisoire de l’organisation Fanmi Lavalas réitère sa conviction qu’il revient à tous les organisateurs de Fanmi Lavalas de :

Dégager un consensus sur les dispositions à prendre en vue de résoudre les différents problèmes qui empêchent l’organisation Fanmi Lavalas de fonctionner selon sa charte, ses statuts et règlements.

Elaborer ensemble l’approche adéquate qui puisse conduire à l’inclusion des candidats de Fanmi Lavalas dans les élections sénatoriales prévues pour le 19 avril prochain.

Fait à Port-au-Prince, le 9 février 2009-02-09
Pour l’Equipe responsable :
Yves Cristallin Stephen Francisque
Administrateur Secrétaire

A Qui de Droit
Le Représentant National de l’organisation Fanmi Lavalas, parti politique légalement reconnu, contraint de résider momentanément à l’étranger suite au coup d’Etat (kidnapping) sanglant fomenté par les ennemis de la démocratie et du changement, octroie par la présente, mandat au Docteur Maryse narcisse à l’effet de prendre toutes les dispositions nécessaires à la bonne marche et au bon fonctionnement du parti.

Ces pouvoirs à elle conférés lui permettront de représenter le parti à toutes les manifestations et dans toutes les activités répondant pacifiquement à la mission de l’Organisation, notamment à sa participation aux débats politiques, aux forums démocratiques, au combat pour la survie de la démocratie, à la défense des droits des militants et sympathisants du parti, à la désignation des candidats du parti aux joutes électorales à tous les niveaux, aux colloques, congrès, séminaires et échanges avec d’autres entités pour l’établissement de la démocratie et le règne du changement.

En foi de quoi, la présente est délivrée pour servir et valoir ce que de droit.

Fait à la Jamaïque, le 27 avril 2004
Jean-Berrtrand Aristide

See also:

Mandat ou non d'Aristide: Lavalas vs Lavalas | mardi 10 février 2009 | Radio Kiskeya | http://radiokiskeya.com/spip.php?article5677 ; and

Ezili Dantò's Note: On the Maryse Narcisse "mandat" delivered to the CEP
(at draft)

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Protest looms as US is set to deport 30,000 Haitians, AFP, Feb. 18, 2009

MIAMI (AFP) — Activists called a protest for Saturday as the United States moved closer to carrying out deportation orders for more than 30,000 Haitians.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman said Tuesday that deportation orders have been processed for 30,299 Haitians and hundreds have been put in detention centers or on electronic monitoring at home in preparation for deportation.

"Last week we had nationally 30,299 Haitians on final order of removal, meaning that an Immigration judge ordered them to be deported from the United States," said spokeswoman Nicole Navas.

Meanwhile 598 Haitians are detained and 243 (have) electronic monitoring, Navas explained.

US authorities complain that deportations have been dragged out because the Haitian government has failed to provide proper documentation for the trips while insisting it is not in any shape to handle a major return of refugees.
Haiti's consul general in Miami Ralph Latortue did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

"People are terrified, very afraid, especially those who have children and do not want to go back to Haiti," said Gepsie Metellus, director of "Sant La", a social aid network in Miami's Little Haiti district.

Activists and immigrants alike have called a protest rally for Saturday at Broward Transitional Center, in Broward county just north of Miami, said activist Marleine Bastien.

They are demanding an end to arrests and an end to deportations of Haitians, the right to work and the release of the hundreds of Haitians held in detention centers across the country.

Immigration is a sensitive issue in the Miami area, home to at least 800,000 Cuban-Americans. Haitians and immigrants from other Latin American countries deeply resent that when Cubans arrive in Miami they are immediately given the right to stay and work, a blanket red-carpet welcome given to citizens of no other country.

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Standing on truth, living without fear – Supporting Barack Obama’s vision of what can be…
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The Haitian struggle - the greatest David vs. Goliath battle being played out on this plane

What do we do on an independence day under occupation?

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‘...Hayti (is) the glory of the blacks and terror of tyrants...I hope that she may be united, keeping a strict look-out for tyrants, for if they get the least chance to injure her, they will avail themselves of it...But one thing which gives me joy is, that they (the Haitians) are men (and women) who would be cut off to a man before they would yield to the combined forces of the whole world-----in fact, if the whole world was combined against them it could not do anything with them...’
---David Walker
from: David Walker’s Appeal, 1829

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