Presidential
Fmr. President René Préval to Testify Before Senate Commission
- Saturday, June 18, 2011 8:21 PM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The Senate commission tasked to investigate the falsification of the amended text of the Constitution of 1987 started Thursday, a series of hearings that will have the former President, René Préval, answering questions.
"A correspondence will be soon sent to the former head of State," Senator Joseph Lambert, Member of the Board of special inquiry announced.
The Presidents of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, respectively Jean Rodolphe Joazile and Saurel Jacinthe, will be also interviewed by the special senate commission of the Assembly.
The Director of the national press, Wilhems Edouard, and Senator Jocelerme Privert are also targeted by the commission in an attempt to fix the responsibilities in the wrong version of the constitutional amendment published on the eve of the handover of power between René Préval and Michel Martelly.
After the futile attempt, the latter agreed to submit, pursuant to the Constitution of 1987, the authentic text voted on May 9 to the Office of the National Assembly to publish in the monitor.
The members of the commission chaired by Senator Edmonde Supplice Beauzile agree on the modalities of work. They have also developed a questionnaire and set a deadline to submit a report to the Assembly here next week.
Not less than eight articles have been manipulated in the document published on the last day of the former presidency of René Préval. Manipulated sections deal particularly with the censure vote that Parliament can take against a head of Government. The mandates of Deputies, senators and local elected officials have been literally amended.
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Source: Le Nouvelliste
