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Weekly Report - 04 December 2014 (WR-14-48)
HAITI: Political tensions rise
President Michel Martelly last week announced he was setting up a 12-member presidential commission to address the worsening political crisis in Haiti. This has been caused by the delay in the staging of long-overdue elections for 20 of the 30 seats in the national senate (10 of which have been empty since May 2012) and the entire 99-seat national chamber of deputies, as well as hundreds of municipal posts. Martelly made his announcement the same day as anti-government protests were held in the capital, Port-au-Prince – the latest in a series of demonstrations which have been taking place with increasing frequency.
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