Haiti Opposition

President Jovenel Moise is trying his best to put in place a "gouvernement d'union nationale" but the opposition via Andre Michel said the only solution to the political crisis in Haiti is the resignation of Jovenel Moise among other things.

Andre Michel also said there needs a trial for those who embezzled the PetroCaribe funds, a trial for Dermalog and a trial for the La Saline massacres.

Without these things Haiti will remain at a standstill according to the opposition leader.

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Passerelle, a group composed of a hundred or so civil society organizations and the private sector, are getting ready to finally meet with Haiti President Jovenel Moise.

Passerelle is a civil society commission to facilitate the resolution of the crisis.

Back in October this year, Passrelle was calling on President Jovenel Moïse to resign, to facilitate an end to the current political crisis.

Someone from the inside told a very popular newspaper in Haiti that Passerelle is ready to negotiate.

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Opposition man Andre Michel made the decision for everyone in Haiti this Christmas season that there will holiday in Haiti this year. "Malere pa nan fèt (Poor people cannot feast), he said.

Andre Michel says US Embassy is the Only barricade stopping opposition from overthrowing President Jovenel

Manifestation in Port-au-Prince Haiti Friday 06 Dec in the direction of U.S. Embassy

"Nou pa nan fèt nou pa nan trèv. mwa Desanm sa se pwal yon mwa de konba sur toute l'étendue du territoire national."

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Opposition lawyer Andre Michel says it loud and clear: The U.S. Embassy in Port-U-Prince is the only barricade in the way of the opposition getting rid of President Jovenel.

"Only one barricade prevents the opposition from getting rid of Jovenel Moise, this barricade is called the US Embassy," Andre Michel said.

We are a country, we have dignity. It is time for them to stop sinking their teeth (foure dan yo) into Haitian Politics, the opposition attorney said.

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President Jovenel said: "The biggest obstacle that I've come across in my two years and 9 months as president is the fact that Haiti is a country torn apart and divided."

"Everyone has his or her own plan to save Haiti; however, no one wants to sit the other so we can save Haiti together," the president said. "Each person wants to save Haiti all by himself."

President Jovenel pointed this out during his speech for the launching of a cooperative financing program in the Artibonite region Thursday November 28, 2019, at the National palace.

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Haiti president Jovenel Moise rejects all accusations human rights violations by himself or his government, accusations that the opposition and Haitian human rights organizations pin point to high ranking officials in the Moise government.

Human rights organizations in Haiti and abroad accused the Jovenel Moise governemt of political killings in Bel Air and Cite Soley, two heavily populated neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince

In an interview to Voice of America, the president said these accusations are all manipulations by those against him in order achieve their objectives.

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Haitian Depute Alfredo Antoine says he doesn't quite understand why the leaders of the opposition in Haiti are so quick to meet with a representative of US President Donald Trump while they refuse to sit down with President Jovenel Moise.

According to a press release from the US embassy in Haiti, Ambassador Kelly Craft, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, met with a cross section of Haiti's political leaders to encourage urgent acction to form a government that serves the people of Haiti.

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A delegation led by American diplomat Kelly Dawn Knight Craft, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, is coming to Haiti to help solve the ongoing political crisis, a journalist revealed.

This delegation will arrive in Haiti on Wednesday, November 20, 2019.

Garry Pierre Paul Charles, Journalist at Radio Scoop FM Haiti revealed Kelly Craft and his delegation will met with various actors in the opposition behind closed doors.

Opposition senators Youri Latortue and Evallière Beauplan are among the list of people expected at these meetings.

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"Even if opposition leaders lead the anti-JovenelMoise movement, they must know that they are unloved," an newspaper article from Le Nouvelliste reads.

The elections held throughout the country since the end of the dictatorship of the Duvaliers prove it.

The population still elects an outsider to the post of President of the Republic at the expense of political leaders active in the field.

The cohabitation between an outsider president and the so-called traditional political leaders is always problematic. Hence, one of the causes of the political instability that the country has been experiencing since the fall of the Duvaliers.

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In other democratic countries, the opposition keeps an eye on the missteps of the politicians in power to advance their cause. In Haiti it is different. In Haiti the opposition is more like "wete ko'w pou m mete kò m" (move aside so I can take your place).

In every other country in the world, there exists an opposition but in Haiti we set up the opposition in a completely different way, one colleague said in a a discussion.

Democrat and Republicans in the United States are in a constant battle to take control of the White House or the majority in parliament but there is no fighting in the streets, no barricades, no militants preventing children from going to school or employees from going to work, a Diaspora argued.

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