16 SENATORS FORMALLY OPPOSE BERNARD GOUSSE FOR PRIME MINISTER
(Defend Haiti) - By Orlando Aurelien
PORT-AU-PRINCE - At least sixteen out of 30 Senators adopted on Friday, a resolution rejecting in advance the candidacy of Mr. Bernard Gousse as prime minister and asking President Michel Martelly to appoint a new prime minister.
Submitted to the President of the Senate, Rudolph Joazile, which was in turn forward it to the Head of State, the resolution of the Parliamentary Group for the Renewal (GPR) practically kills any chances of MR. Bernard Gousse to be the next prime minister.
Senator Joazile confirmed to having received the correspondence of his described colleagues and hoped to inform Mr. Gousse if he still wanted to submit his document to the parliament for evaluation.
"The prime minister-designate is politically dead, and when a person dies, you have no other choice but to bury him," shouted Jean-Charles Moses, the Northern senator elected on the banner of INITE, the platform of former President Rene Preval.
"The chances of Mr. Gousse to succeed in parliament are zero," said the head of the parliamentary group, Senator Joseph Lambert and asked the president to reconsider his decision by appointing a new prime minister.
In their "political solution", the 16 members of the Grand Corps, which should be joined by other parliamentarians criticized Bernard Gousse for his alleged involvement, as former minister of justice, in "repression, arbitrary arrests and killings in the neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince", during the transition that followed in 2004; the fall of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
The rejection of the appointment of Bernard Gousse is the second political blow inflicted by the Parliament to Michel Martelly and a further manifestation of his inability to form the first government of his five-year mandate, two months after coming to power in a post-earthquake extreme emergency...
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