Turkey- Haiti opposition will not support overthrow by parliament
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) A group of Haitian opposition presidential candidates warned Monday it would not support what is called an overthrow by the parliament in an agreement to have the country ruled by a provisional leader until elections later this year.
The G8 as the group is called condemned the "anti-people" and "anti-democratic nature" of the deal signed Saturday "in the margins of the constitution" between leading lawmakers and Michel Martelly one day before he left office.
Martelly served as president until Sunday when he was constitutionally mandated to leave office.
According to the G8 the agreement which stipulates that a provincial leader be chosen within five days attempts to validate the 2015 elections as if it were normal in spite of deadly protest in the wake of the polls.
"This is a provocation an unacceptable disregard by the signatories of the alleged agreement for popular and peasant masses and the middle classes" the group said adding that they believe the parliament is part of the crisis and cannot decide the solution.
It said it would not accept anyone elected in polls that were not "clean".
The agreement between the parliament and Martelly attempts to avoid a power vacuum in the poorest Caribbean country amid a deep political crisis exacerbated by the two consecutive postponements of election runoffs to chose a new president.
A provisional government is to rule for no more than 120 days with elections held in April and a new presidential term to begin in May.
Martelly left office with Prime Minister Evans Paul assuming control of the government until the National Assembly elects a successor.
By Senabri Silvestre
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