Platform Pitit Desalin party leader Jean-Charles Moïse called for unity among several opposition forces whose common goal is to secure the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse.
Jean-Charles, who says that the popular movement unleashed for two months will achieve its purpose, is committed to consensus among the most representative opposition groups, to draw up a single proposal for the president’s removal.
He also warned economic elites to stop supporting the current system, which generates deep social differences.
The massive mobilizations that have shaken the country for almost two months have marked the different opposition forces, which are beginning to demonstrate their discrepancies, experts note.
The Democratic Bloc for National Recovery, made up of about 40 social organizations, proposed on Tuesday to establish an exceptional government, with a restricted ministerial cabinet and no prime minister.
On Monday Haiti entered the eighth consecutive week of anti-government protests, with a curfew decreed yesterday by opposition sectors, who are asking people to stay home.
Barricades of tires, roadblocks, slowing of collective transportation and paralysis of economic activities mark this Monday in the capital and other cities of the country.
Yesterday, Andre Michel, spokesman for the Consensual Alternative for the Refoundation of Haiti, decreed a curfew, starting at 19:00, and announced the launch of a ‘democratic assault.’
‘It is the people who have control,’ the staunch opponent of the government said in a press conference, where he announced that they will take over public institutions.
Experts note that Haiti has been experiencing a radicalization of the socio-political crisis for the past two months, the deepest since the fall of the dictatorship (1986), while hundreds of thousands are protesting for a change in the system that will allow a more equitable redistribution of national resources. (PL)
