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iciHaiti - Politic : Summary of the parliamentary week
16/04/2019 10:00:59

According to the Citizen Observatory for the Institutionalization of Democracy (OCID), for the week of 8 to 12 April 2019 no plenary session could be organized in Parliament either by the Senate or by the Chamber of Deputies, for lack of quorum...

In recent weeks, faced the political, economic and social crisis the country face, it is becoming more and more difficult in both chambers to mobilize elected representatives to obtain the necessary quorum for a plenary session. On Tuesday, April 9, only 26 out of 116 deputies were in the lower house, while 13 out of 19 senators were in the upper house.

OCID urges parliamentarians to fully assume their responsibility, recalling that the plenary sessions allow elected representatives to discuss major issues and vote on pending legislation ...

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