Opposition leaders rejected the call of the Organization of American States (OAS) to hold elections in Haiti before 2021 and reiterated that the body is interfering in internal affairs once again.
Lawyer André Michel, spokesman for the Popular and Democratic Sector, stated there is no possible coexistence with the ruling party and its allies, and stressed that the solution to the persistent national crisis is the mobilization and establishment of a transition administration.
Victor Benoit, leader of the Social Democratic Rassemblement Party, also disapproved of the actions of the OAS, and assured that the complex situation in the country cannot be resolved without a political agreement among all sectors of national life.
Luis Almagro wrote to the Haitian head of state Jovenel Moïse last week and pointed out the urgency of holding legislative elections to re-establish a functional Parliament and then meet the electoral deadline for the transfer of democratic power.
However, opposition platforms have been demanding for several months that the president conclude his term in 2021, arguing that the electoral cycle began a year before he took office.
For Senator Patrice Dumont, while the international community has the right to observe and pronounce itself on the situation of the Haitian democracy, it should not interfere in it or give orders to national actors.
Meanwhile, Edmonde Supplice Beauzile, president of the Fusion of Social Democrats party, announced that a coalition of political structures intends to write to the OAS against their new meddling.
Several parties in Haiti have already rejected the president’s electoral plans and stressed they will not accept elections ‘whose results are known in advance. (https://www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=59466&SEO=new-interference-by-oas-in-the-internal-affairs-of-haiti-rejected)
