3. The Conference of the Presidents
The configuration of the conference of the presidents and its
attributions in the management and the organization of parliamentary work
requires a co-optation stopped between the political groups in the formation of
the standing committees. If the division is not made in a rational way on the
level of the presidencies of these commissions one could confront a blocking
within the Parliament which has to have to ratify the decisions of the
conference of the presidents.
However, with the 46ème Haitian legislature this
problem was not solved. It is known that at the beginning of the legislature
there was a called majority political group: LAVALAS and of
Independent which did not constitute one of them. The formation of the standing
committees was made in a way not involved under any lawful base questioning the
representativeness of the various political scenes within the Parliament. On
the contrary, the presidencies of the aforesaid commissions had set out again
according to the particular interests of the elected officials for such field.
For example, the presidency of the commission of health was allotted to a
doctor, that of agriculture to an agronomist, etc.... This situation is the
same one as well on the level of the House of Commons as of the Senate of the
Republic.
Today, the conflicts at the Parliament gave a reality to which
each Room should conform. Thus three political blocks are currently made up
with the House of Commons: the BPOPL, the group of
anti-néolibéral dialog and GPI. With the Senate of the
Republic there is the BPOPL and the Independent Group.
However, there no was rehandling within the office of the standing committees
at the time of this new political configuration. The rules of procedure should
require this rehandling with each time a new block is constituted; with each
time there is defection of a member of a block which occupied the presidency of
the one of the standing committees.
b) Inexistence of certain fundamental structures
The new political régime recommended by the
constitution of 1987 creates a semi system parliamentary or semi-presidential
which gives place to serious modifications in the management of the
relationship between the Government and the Parliament.
In addition, the rules of procedure envisage certain
structures which would have as a role to instigate the parliamentary function.
With the fact, the questions of an administrative nature of the various
services of the Parliament are controls by an organic law about which the
Parliament has to come to a conclusion. In addition, when there is disagreement
between the legislative power and the executive power, it is a body of
mediation which is seized by it.
Lastly, the Parliament must establish a communication network
with the civil company. These points are fundamental elements whose Parliament
should work with the realization. Unfortunately the 46ème legislature
does not profit from such an organization.
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