26087: Sharp: (reply) Simeus Candidacy (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: JONATHAN SHARP <flyingspinach@gmail.com>

This argument doesn't make much sense in context. You can't get the
legislature to make an amendment when it's not under pressure from the
electorate, and it's not pressured when elections don't happen, as
they have not happened in 1999 and 2003. And there's no means for a
popular referendum. It's a non-starter.

Unless you mean by bribing them, although hopefully that's not what
you have in mind when you talk about "the kind of leadership Haiti
needs."

If Haitians were to select Simeus, that should hold more legitimacy
than Article 135.

Jon S.

"The best leadership is by example. By insisting on running for
president despite the constitutional ban on such course of action
given the nationality issue Mr. Simeus is not setting a shining
example of the kind of leadership that Haiti needs. On the contrary he
is showing a thirst for power that undermine his claims of altruism.

Mr. Simeus should withdraw and work to change the legal framework or
lobby to have the amendments removed or amended."

--Quote from Herve Michel