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Triple Nationality: "Martelly Must Go if it’s Proven"

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) – "The head of state can’t escape, he must avoid the obfuscation and tell the whole truth to the nation," said last Saturday Anthony Barbier, member of the Fusion of Social Democrats on the airwaves of Radio Caraibes, in Port-au-Prince, about the triple nationality issue of Mr. Martelly. "He must go away if it turns out that Senator Moise Jean-Charles was right in his accusations," said Barbier.

The issue of dual or multiple nationalities assumed of the president was harshly debated during the political radio show "Ranmase" aired on Radio Caraibes Saturday. Anthony Barbier of Fusion of Social Democrats is categoric. "The head of state can’t escape; he must avoid the obfuscation and tell the whole truth to the nation. This is an extremely serious and dangerous, one can’t afford playing with it. "

Former Plan Minister added that the president and the nation already know the consequences, since the constitution and laws of the Republic do not allow any interpretation. "He must go if it turns out that Senator Moise Jean-Charles was right in his accusations," said Mr Barbier.

Same considerations by the other panelists of the radio show who considered the accusations of Parliament to be particularly serious. The engineer Christian Rousseau puts the responsibility for this potential chaos on the account of weakness or inefficiency of state institutions. “The Court of Auditors for example or the CEP could not verify the authenticity of documents submitted to it by the candidates”.

To the attorney André Michel, fierce opponent to President Martelly, "the severity of the charges should carry the president to give a convincing and serious answer to the question, he preferred to laugh at that”.

Attorney Aviol Fleurant himself said he’s waiting the conclusions of the report of the Commission of Inquiry of the Senate before giving his position on the issue. However, he believes that if the charges against the president are true, he will not even have to wait a parliamentary procedure of impeachment to go.

For his part, the new president of the senate said he bitterly regrets the fact that he can’t continue to operate in the inquiry commission on nationality. Dieuseul Desras Simon believes, however, that while being at the head of the Senate and National Assembly, he will ensure that any light is shed on this issue.