22130: erzilidanto: Lavalas supports the decision regarding representation on the new CEP (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Erzilidanto@aol.com

Agence Haïtienne de Presse AHP


May 26, 2004


Lavalas supports the decision by the directorate of the party not to

be represented on the new CEP



Port-au-Prince, May 26, 2004 (AHP)-  Fanmi Lavalas activists declared

their support Wednesday for the party directorate's decision not to

be represented on the new Provisional Electoral Council (CEP).


Fanmi Lavalas can not take part in the CEP,  most of whose members

come from organizations belonging to the Platform of the

ex-opposition, said the activists.


In addition to the representative of the judicial branch, who, they

say, is completely in the pocket of the ex-opposition, they mentioned

the representatives from the Democratic Convergence, Rosemond Pradel

and the human rights sector's Freud Jean, who are respectively

officials of CONACOM and OPL.


According to Ti Roro, the various institutions of civil society who

have designated representatives to the CEP all belong to the Group of

184, thus to the political Platform of the former opposition.


He said that any possible representative of Fanmi Lavalas would only

be there to approve the actions of the other eight members.


According to the Lavalas activists, "Most of the organizations

represented on the new electoral body have a reputation of being

hostile toward the disadvantaged masses, who are the majority in the

country, and do not miss an opportunity to attach to them the

pejorative nickname of "chimères". 


They said that the latest statements of a leader of the interim

government, Bernard Gousse, are symptomatic of this hostility.


The provisional minister of justice accused those he labeled

"chimères" of being responsible for the new acts of insecurity.


Like the members of the directorate of Fanmi Lavalas, the Lavalas

activists said that the interim authorities must put an end to the

persecutions and arbitrary arrests targeting the supporters of the

party of Jean-Bertrand Aristide before they will take part in the

electoral process.


According to them, the political violence has only one single

objective, and that is to exclude Fanmi Lavalas from the political

leadership of the country.


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