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As interim president’s term ends, Haitians ask, ‘Who’s in charge?
Source: Miami Herald
JUNE 15, 2016 8:19 PM
As interim president’s term ends, Haitians ask, ‘Who’s in charge?
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES
PORT-AU-PRINCE - Shortly before 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, a political operative in Haiti took to Twitter and asked in Creole, “Tonight, if I have a child, under which president would it be born?”
The question, a play on some Haitians’ way of describing their age not by the year they were born but by the Haitian president in power at the time, underscored the uncharted territory Haiti finds itself in after its interim president’s 120-day mandate ended Tuesday evening with backroom negotiations stalled.
Lawmakers had failed to show up in parliament to decide the most basic question: whether interim President Jocelerme Privert should remain in office or be replaced with Prime Minister Enex Jean-Charles or some other interim leader to carry out elections as outlined in a February political accord that put a caretaker government in charge.
That indecisiveness and constitutional disarray has left Haitians — already battling drought, Zika and the worst food crisis in 15 years — wondering for the second time in four months, “Who’s in charge?”
The short answer: No one knows.
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As interim president’s term ends, Haitians ask, ‘Who’s in charge?
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES
PORT-AU-PRINCE - Shortly before 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, a political operative in Haiti took to Twitter and asked in Creole, “Tonight, if I have a child, under which president would it be born?”
The question, a play on some Haitians’ way of describing their age not by the year they were born but by the Haitian president in power at the time, underscored the uncharted territory Haiti finds itself in after its interim president’s 120-day mandate ended Tuesday evening with backroom negotiations stalled.
Lawmakers had failed to show up in parliament to decide the most basic question: whether interim President Jocelerme Privert should remain in office or be replaced with Prime Minister Enex Jean-Charles or some other interim leader to carry out elections as outlined in a February political accord that put a caretaker government in charge.
That indecisiveness and constitutional disarray has left Haitians — already battling drought, Zika and the worst food crisis in 15 years — wondering for the second time in four months, “Who’s in charge?”
The short answer: No one knows.
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Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article84045662.html
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Also: Haiti power vacuum looms as leader's mandate lapses (BBC)
