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Weekly Report - 27 March 2014 (WR-14-12)
HAITI: Martelly and congress strike ‘historic’ accord
“An unprecedented step in national political history” is how Sandra Honoré, the head of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (Minustah), described a deal reached last week between the executive and legislative branches of government and political parties. As well as an apparent breakthrough in terms of overcoming the impasse between the two branches of power, stemming from President Michel Martelly’s lack of presence in the legislature, the deal is considered crucial for future political stability; it sets the date not only for overdue elections to replace 10 of the 30 senators whose terms expired in May 2012 as well as municipal officials, but also another third of the senate and the entire 99-member lower chamber, whose seats were up for election.
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