Haiti: civil society denounces the strong support of the UN for Jovenel Moïse
Police fire tear gas during a nationwide strike demanding the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince on February 2, 2021. AP - Dieu Nalio Chery
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The UN is accused of supporting the disputed president.
Doubt hangs in Haiti as to what will happen on Sunday.
According to the political opposition and a growing number of civil society organizations, it is this Sunday that the president's term ends.
Jovenel Moïse's camp assures him that he should not return to power until February 7, 2022. In this tense context, the UN is suspected of largely departing from its mission objectives by providing support to the head of the State.
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With our correspondent in Port-au-Prince,
Amélie Baron
How can the UN want to offer logistical and technical support for elections that would be organized outside any legal framework?
This is the question posed by a dozen feminist and human rights organizations.
Their open letter to the secretary general's representative in Haiti recalls that the members of the Electoral Council were not appointed according to constitutional principles and that they were not sworn in before the Court of Cassation as required by law.
Moreover, civil society organizations consider that the UN office in Haiti "
has shown itself to be very complacent with power
" following the various massacres that took place in the working-class neighborhoods of the capital.
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Also, Binuh has said nothing about the forty or so decrees and the hundred or so orders that Jovenel Moïse has taken since the Parliament is dysfunctional.
A
dysfunction
caused by the non-organization of elections by the authorities.
And finally the proliferation of gangs in Haiti under the gaze of the United Nations pushes civil society to remind the UN that its mission was to promote human rights, the rule of law and to consolidate institutions.
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