Port-au-Prince Bar Raises Concerns Over “Constitutional Fraud and Authoritarianism”

While the Steering Committee of the National Conference has transmitted to the Transitional Presidential Council the final text of the new Constitution for referendum, the document continues to be the subject of denunciations and warnings. In a report on the draft Constitution, the commission set up by the Port-au-Prince Bar Association to analyze the text criticizes the “legal irregularity and illegitimacy” of the process. It characterizes as high treason the government’s desire to change a Constitution that it had sworn to uphold and enforce.

Despite numerous criticisms and denunciations from various personalities and organized groups in society, the Transitional Presidential Council is maintaining its course in its intention to change the country’s Constitution. “The members of the CPT swore to uphold and enforce the 1987 Constitution. The majority of the acts issued by the CPT and the government target the Constitution. Attempting to have a new Constitution adopted in this context would constitute, on the part of the current political authorities, a violation of the

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