Weekly Report - 22 April 2010 (WR-10-16)

This week, the Haitian government successfully pushed through congress legislation extending the state of urgency decreed immediately after January's earthquake for another 18 months. President René Préval argued that the legislation, which also establishes the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, was essential to set in motion the reconstruction efforts in the short-term. A number of opposition congressmen objected to such a long extension of the state of urgency, arguing that it would undermine the opposition's chances of winning the presidential elections, due before the end of 2010, and the congressional elections postponed from February.

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