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President Jovenel Moïse Remains Oblivious and Intransigent
November 6, 2019
President Jovenel Moïse acts as if Haiti is not going through an acute crisis for which he is principally responsible.
In the political crisis that has rocked Haiti for three months, the opposition is exhorting the masses to keep up the difficult struggle to chase President Jovenel Moïse from power, while the President clings obstinately to his chair in the National Palace against all odds. Both sides show no signs of throwing in the towel, and, sooner or later, it appears that one will end up knocking out the other.
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President Jovenel Moïse Remains Oblivious and Intransigent | Haiti Liberte
November 6, 2019
President Jovenel Moïse acts as if Haiti is not going through an acute crisis for which he is principally responsible.
In the political crisis that has rocked Haiti for three months, the opposition is exhorting the masses to keep up the difficult struggle to chase President Jovenel Moïse from power, while the President clings obstinately to his chair in the National Palace against all odds. Both sides show no signs of throwing in the towel, and, sooner or later, it appears that one will end up knocking out the other.
The opposition has found inventive strategies to continue mobilizing as many people as possible in its fight against the regime, but what surprises many are the methods used by the president to create diversion and to pretend he maintains control of the state apparatus. Some outsider who does not monitor the flow of information disseminated by social networks and who, by chance, came across the interview that President Jovenel Moïse gave to two journalists of Radio Metropole on Mon., Oct. 28, 2019 on the Haitian political situation might have believed that all is well in Haiti, except for some events here and there led by annoying people who sometimes have anti-government mood swings.
I was surprised, even astonished, by the calmness with which the President of a country, which has burned in every sense of the word for more than three months, responded to the more than complacent questions of these journalists who, in reality, did not wish to leave the confines of the editorial line of the station for which they work. Wendell Theodore and his colleague were indeed worthless in the way they conducted the interview with the head of state. They were on a appointed mission, so they fulfilled their mission. Period!
ACCORDING TO JOVENEL, IT IS A SIMPLE PROBLEM OF THE “SYSTEM” THAT SHOULD BE SOLVED IN A FEW DAYS’ TIME IF WE FOLLOW HIS READING OF THE CONFLICT…
For Jovenel Moïse, he acts as if the country is not going through an acute crisis for which he is principally responsible. Moreover, he seems to say, since everyone says that there is a crisis in Haiti and that the country is in chaos where everything, absolutely everything, is blocked, then he will take or has already taken steps to remedy this situation. Still, according to him, it was a simple problem of the “System” that should be solved in a few days’ time if we follow his reading of the conflict, pitting him, not against the entire Haitian population, but only against some individuals who claim to be the opposition.
A curious understanding of this ongoing crisis! According to President Moïse, it is enough to denounce two or three private electricity suppliers in Haiti – in this case SOGENER, HAYTRAC and E-POWER – for economic activities to resume, for schools to reopen their doors, and, in short, for the population to return to its business. Indeed, while listening to or reading the messages of the Secretariat of State for Communication of the doubly resigned government of Prime Minister Jean Michel Lapin, whose exact status is unknown (but clearly it’s irrelevant), it is understood that various measures have been taken to restore calm, security, and even tranquility in a country where you have to be deaf and blind to not see and hear the din of people from everywhere nowadays, which will stop at nothing to get the resignation of the President Moïse. However, it seems that Moïse thinks his term will end in 2022. But his contract with the Haitian people was terminated for failing to keep his promises, although he swears on his life and on the life of his family that he will abandon his post only between four pieces of board.
President Moïse’s recent media interviews has revived the protests, making them more massive than ever.
To justify this radical and senseless position, President Jovenel Moïse, after being in hiding for a long time during the popular protests, has now become motivated and, curiously, is multiplying his media statements. After a first catastrophic taped address to the nation aired on Sep. 25 at 2 a.m., a few days later, he held a press conference in the National Palace gardens, a way to demonstrate to his opponents that he is “still alive” and still very present in this mythical place. These two addresses, however, gave no satisfactory result given the President’s difficulties in justifying his refusal to give up power, so the opposite happened. He in fact sparked a wave of criticism and at the same time revived the opposition and the protesters who understood how obstinate Jovenel Moïse was.
Since his night-time address, in which he said nothing consistent, and his press conference, which proved to be a kind of provocation for the opposition and the thousands of demonstrators, Operation “Country Lock” has grown and now the entire nation seems hell bent on ousting his regime. Noting that nothing was accomplished through these desperate attempts pantomime state business through ceremonies just to receive the credentials of ambassadors of some countries who have never understood anything about the Haitian people’s struggle and while educating, it seems, senior officials to take measures to relieve the misery of the population demonstrating against him, before organizing a meeting with all the authorities responsible for “security” and especially repression against the protesters, in particular the CSPN (Superior Council of the National Police), the Delegates and Deputy Delegates (Prefects), the Departmental Directors of the National Police, etc., Jovenel Moïse, whose interviews with journalists remain a scarce commodity, very rare, decided to respond favorably to a request for an interview from Radio France International’s correspondent in Port-au-Prince, Amélie Baron.
Thus, in a long interview with this foreign media, Jovenel Moïse tried to justify and even explain the reasons that motivate him not to resign. According to him, his early departure would mean civil war, at least a war between various opposition factions which, according to him, will never manage to agree on the sharing of power. For the President, his five-year term is not negotiable. And for good reason. Those who want his skin are the beneficiaries of what he calls the “System”, not necessarily the millions of protesters. Those who, for decades, made their butter with lucrative contracts on the back of the Haitian state, those are the bloodsuckers that today want his departure. Thus, his answer to multiple calls to resign is “No.”
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