As political negotiations between Montana Accord members, the prime minister and his allies stall, Ariel Henry and the Montana Accord president-elect spoke on the political crisis on Thursday . Fritz Alphonse Jean confides to the Nouvelliste that he maintains Montana’s position, namely the restoration of the three powers of the state and a two-headed executive at the head of the country to lead the transition…
“We in Montana are saying that we clearly need to discuss a consensus around the restoration of the three powers of the state,” the president-elect under the Montana accord told the newspaper, referring to to his meeting with the Prime Minister. For Fritz Alphonse Jean, a two-headed executive must be set up to lead the transition.
The former governor of the central bank pointed out to Le Nouvelliste that the meeting took place in his office on Thursday August 4 and that the initiative came from the Prime Minister. However, he said, he would have had no problem taking the initiative himself to invite Ariel Henry to a meeting to discuss the country’s situation.
For several weeks, he added, people around Ariel Henry have contacted other people close to him to plan this meeting.
On his Twitter account, M. Jean explains: “In yesterday’s meeting with PM Ariel Henry, we discussed the urgency to get the country out of the violence that is ruining the country and its children, the economic crisis that makes people poorer. We believe that only a frank speech can allow us to restore the 3 powers of the State, as the Montana consensus clearly defines it. »
This week, the Montana Accord Monitoring Office formally decided to suspend political negotiations with the Prime Minister.
For its part, Ariel Henry’s team wants to negotiate only on “the constitutional question, in particular the revision of the electoral system, the question of political parties as the first segment of the national dialogue on the fundamental problems of the nation and the harmonization of warrants; the fight against corruption and impunity: the strengthening and possibly the revision of control and prosecution bodies, the fight against tax evasion, urgent institutional reforms; social appeasement and the revival of economic, social and cultural activities with a view to improving the living conditions of the population and facilitating the return to peace; elections, formation of the CEP (institutional and administrative dimension), financing of political parties and elections; the questions of the judiciary, the body of control of the governmental action and the third of the Senate during the transition”.
So that the holders of the Montana agreement want to introduce the restoration of the three powers of the state with a bi-headed executive during the transition into the agenda of the negotiations. “We ask that in the agenda there be an item called “reestablishing, on a consensus and transitional basis, the three powers of the State, in the spirit of the Constitution of 87″. The State must restore order in itself, in its institutions, within the framework of a broad consensus, so that it has the institutional and political means in its hands to rebuild the Republic, to be able to solve a set of problems”, demanded Montana.
For now, political negotiations are officially suspended between Ariel Henry and Montana. However, both sides continue to meet actors involved in the political crisis that has paralyzed the country for several years.
Several members of the Montana Accord Monitoring Office contacted on Friday by Le Nouvelliste declined to comment on the meeting between Prime Minister Ariel Henry and Montana President Fritz A. Jean.