"SENATOR LAMBERT SHOULD BE EXCLUDED FROM THE INQUIRY COMMITTEE"
(Defend Haiti) -
PORT-AU-PRINCE - The President of the Special Senate Committee investigating the nationality of the head of state and government members, Joseph Lambert, has been disowned by his own political platform INITE, and challenged by his colleague Moïse Jean-Charles, saying that he should be excluded from the Committee. The Southeast department Senator is considered implausible to head a commission of inquiry on the president of whom he is an ally.
The political platform INITE expressed on Thursday, "its concern about the abuses of power, ... it stands out from some positions demarcating its national coordinator, Joseph Lambert," according to a press note from the platform.
The Coordination of the former presidential platform "further wishes to state publicly that if there are ministers and secretaries from INITE in this government, it is their duty to comply with any constitutional request of Parliament".
The future of Lambert, whose president Michel Martelly recently announced the candidacy in the upcoming partial senatorial elections under an emblem different from INITE, seems unclear in the political structure mounted under the leadership of former President Rene Preval.
The coordination of INITE, in a note by former ministers Paul Denis and Jean Joseph Molière, and deputies Levaillant Louis-Jeune and Sorel Jacinthe, announced shortly an assembly to discuss this issue and make a decision.
The presence of Joseph Lambert to head the special committee of inquiry on the nationality of the head of state, ministers and secretaries of state, meanwhile, is being challenged by Senator Jean-Charles Moses, also a member INITE platform.
"I demand the resignation of Joseph Lambert and Youri Latortue, respectively president and secretary-rapporteur of the Committee," commented Moise Jean-Charles. For the North Senator, these parliamentarians are too close to President Martelly to head such a commission of inquiry.
"I will not resign," retorted Senator Lambert. The assembly of the senators, he said, gave me a mission and I will go through with it. The Chairman of the Committee asked Moise Jean-Charles to offer his mea culpa.
"He has dragged us onto a wrong track," said Lambert, referring to the US passport number that Jean-Charles claims to be as Martelly’s. This passport number, according to the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, doesn’t match with the head of state. "Senator Jean-Charles is covered with ridicule," insisted the president of the commission who is preparing to submit his report to the National Assembly.
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