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- ARTICLE_POSTED_ON: Jan 27, 2015
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By Dady Chery
Haiti Chery - Website : http://www.dadychery.org/2011/05/14/a-prefab-parliament-prefab-president-and-prefab-constitution-for-occupied-haiti/
Overview
Michel Martelly’s inauguration on May 14, 2011 should have brought into effect a new constitution with over 100 amendments to Haiti’s 1987 Constitution.
[Almost one year on, the amended constitution is generally assumed to have died a quiet death because of loud objections by Senators and Deputies who pointed out that a published draft did not concur with their discussions. Undeterred, MINUSTAH and Haiti's foreign occupiers cry "Crisis!" as they launch a coup to replace Haiti's elected mayors with presidential appointees and promote the illegal document.]
The amended constitution was drafted and voted on so quickly that, when the parliamentary session closed, the president of the assembly had no time to reread to the lawmakers the amendments on which they had voted the two previous days. The plan had been to publish the new amended constitution rapidly in French and leave the version of the 1987 Constitution in Haitian Creole unamended, effectively giving Haiti one constitution for the rich and another for the poor.