In the midst of a political crisis and after weeks of silence, he finally spoke. Remained silent during the fuel shortage that paralyzed Haiti between mid-August and early September, President Jovenel Moise called for the "truce" in a recorded message of fifteen minutes broadcast on state television on Wednesday. 2 am (8 pm in France).
"I ask you for a historic truce to begin the social and economic institutional reforms necessary for national development," said the Haitian president, who canceled his trip to the United Nations Assembly in New York.
While in his speech Jovenel Moses has sent his sympathies to the victims of violence in recent days, he has not announced concrete measures to calm the anger of the street. A few hours after the broadcast of this message, groups of young people have won the streets of the capital, raising barricades on the main axes, found AFP journalists.
"He is not our president"
"He wants a truce, I want to eat, he's not our president, he has to leave power," a protester with a masked face reacted in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday. "We will not leave the street while he is there and we will break everything if he does not leave," he added, showing the two stones in his hands.
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In different parts of the capital, police and protesters clashed Wednesday by exchanging tear gas and stone throwing. Angry demonstrations have also been recorded in the main provincial cities, according to local media.
Jovenel Moses did not mention the chaos that reigned in Parliament on Monday. A senator opened fire with his handgun to disperse protesters present in the court of Parliament, while was to hold the meeting of ratification of the general policy of the Prime Minister appointed in mid-July.
A photojournalist from the Associated Press (AP) agency and a security guard were slightly injured by these shots. The originally elected member of the ruling party was not questioned or questioned by the police.
National mobilization on Friday
Tuesday, before the broadcast of the presidential message, the opposition had already called for a new day of national demonstration for Friday.
"Violence can not be part of the democratic game but this population is fed up: there is no dressing at the hospital in Port-au-Prince, there is no electricity, the trash is everywhere and one has the impression that the money of the State is wasted ", explained to AFP Yuri Latortue, senator who, having been adviser of the president Michel Martelly, mentor of Jovenel Moïse, declared himself elected of the opposition.
At the outstretched hand of the president who said he wanted to respond to "political violence through dialogue", his critics unanimously opposed a plea of inadmissibility. "The president can no longer govern the country, he has to resign but we have to do that as part of an orderly withdrawal, where we will know who will come to manage this country for the transition, for the national dialogue, for the launch of the different lawsuits against corruption, "explained Youru Latortue.
With AFP