Senate (Haiti) Explained

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Senate
Native Name:Sénat · Sena
Legislature:Currently Dissolved
Coa Pic:Coat of arms of Haiti.svg
Coa Caption:National emblem of Haiti
House Type:Upper house
Body:Haitian Parliament
Term Limits:No limits
Leader1 Type:President
Foundation:December 1806[1]
Members:30
Structure1:Senate Composition (Haiti).svg
Structure1 Res:250px
Term Length:Six years
Voting System1:Two-round system
Last Election1:2016–17
Next Election1:Next
Meeting Place:Port-au-Prince
Website:http://www.leparlementhaitien.info/

The Senate (French: Sénat,) is the upper house of Haiti's bicameral legislature, the Haitian Parliament. The lower house of the Haitian Parliament is the Chamber of Deputies. The Senate consists of thirty seats, with three members from each of the ten administrative departments. Prior to the creation of the department of Nippes in 2003, there were twenty-seven seats. Senators are elected by popular vote to six-year terms, with one-third elected every two years. There are no term limits for senators; they may be re-elected indefinitely.

After the elections of 2000, twenty-six of the then twenty-seven seats were held by Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas party. The Senate was not in session following the overthrow of Aristide's government in February 2004. An interim government was put in place following the rebellion, and the remaining senators were not recognised during that time. The Senate was re-established and elections were held on 21 April 2006. The next elections were scheduled to occur in 2008, when one-third of the Senate seats was opened.

In 2015, the Senate was reduced to only 10 members and the chamber of deputies was closed because the elections to replace one-third of the senators and all of the deputies in 2013 were delayed indefinitely causing senators and deputies to finish their term in January 2015 without any replacement. This led to a dysfunctional National assembly. In the 2015 parliamentary elections these two-thirds were filled with new elected members, completing the 30 senators.[2]

In January 2020, the number of lawmakers retaining their Senate seats was again reduced to 10 as President Jovenel Moïse failed to hold elections in time to replace the others, whose terms expired before his assassination.[3] [4] Following the expiration of the terms of these remaining senators on 10 January 2023, Haiti has not elected members of either chamber of its Parliament.[5]

Latest election

2015 Haitian parliamentary elections
PartySenators
1st Round2nd RoundTotal
Plateforme Vérité (VERITE)033
Konvansyon Inite Demokratik (KID)033
bgcolor=Haitian Tèt Kale Party (PHTK)066
bgcolor=Struggling People's Organization (OPL)011
bgcolor=Fanmi Lavalas (FL)011
bgcolor=Haiti in Action (AAA)101
Pont011
Platfòm Pitit Desalin011
Ligue Dessalinienne (LIDE)101
Total21214
Seats not awarded yet9
Seats not up in 2015 elections9
Total seats30
Sources: http://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-16100-haiti-flash-deputies-final-results-of-the-2nd-round-of-october-25-2015.html, http://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-16099-haiti-flash-final-results-of-the-2nd-round-of-senatorial-of-october-25-2015.html, http://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-15281-haiti-flash-final-results-of-the-1st-round-of-legislative-elections-of-august-9-2015.html

List of Senate presidents

Le Président du Sénat

NameTook officeLeft officeParty
César Télémaque[6] 31 December 1806February 1807
Jean-Louis BarlatierMarch 1807April 1807
Louis-Auguste DaumecApril 1807May 1807
Théodat TrichetJune 18071807
Guy Joseph Bonnet18084 March 1808
Gabriel David Troy4 March 1808April 1808
Jean-Louis LaroseMay 1808June 1808
Pierre Charles LysJuly 1808August 1808
Philippe Bourjolly-ModéSeptember 180818 November 1808
Louis-Auguste Daumec18 November 1808?
Jean-Louis Larose?April 1811
Louis LerouxMay 18111811
Jean-Auguste Voltaire18121812
Jean-Louis Larose1812?
Pierre Charles Lys18131813
Jean-Auguste Voltaire1813?
Jean-Louis Larose18141814
Louis Leroux1814July 1814
Jean-Louis LaroseAugust 18141814
Jean-Auguste Voltaire1814December 1814
Jean-Louis LaroseDecember 18141815
Pierre Charles Lys18151815
Joseph Neptune1815January 1816
Casimir Célestin PanayotyJanuary 18161816
Jean-Baptiste Bayard1816?
Pierre Simon1817August 1817
Jean-Louis LaroseAugust 1817?
Hilaire Martin[7] ? – 18201820 – ?
Amédé Gayot1821?
Noël Viallet[8] ? – October 1821October 1821–?
Antoine Lerebours[9] ? – October 1822October 1822–?
Noël Viallet? – July 1824February 1825–?
Louis-Auguste Daumec? – April 1825April 1825 – ?
Noël Viallet[10] ? – January 1826April 1826
Pierre-Prosper Rouanez[11] April 1826May 1826 – ?
François Sambour[12] 18271827 – ?
Fonroë Dubreuil? – 18281828
Jean-François Lespinasse18281828
Louis Gabriel Audigé18281828
François Sambour[13] 18281829
Jean-François Lespinasse18291830
Antoine Martinez Valdès18301830
Eustache Frémont18301831
Louis Gabriel Audigé18311831 – ?
Joseph Georges? – 18321832
Louis Gabriel Audigé18321832 – ?
Jean Béchet? – 18331833 – ?
Jean-François Lespinasse[14] ? – August 1833August 1833 – ?
Jean-Baptiste Bayard?1834
Joseph GeorgesJune 1834July 1834
Noël VialletJuly 18341835
Charles-Théodore Cupidon[15] 1835June 1835
Pierre AndréJuly 1835?
Louis D. Gilles1836August 1836
Eustache FrémontSeptember 1836October 1836
Jean-Pierre OriolNovember 1836?
Jose Joachim Del Monte18371837
Beaubrun Ardouin1837?
Amédé Gayot18381838
Charles Bazelais18381838
Beaubrun Ardouin[16] 18381839
David Troy? – March 1846March 1846 – ?
Pierre Louis Bouzi? – 18481848 – ?
André Jean Simon[17] ? – September 1849September 1849–?
Larouchel du Bas-de-Sainte-Anne[18] ??
Désormes Ls. Lafontant? – 18521852 – ?
Hilaire-Jean Pierre? – 18591859 – ?
Pierre-Louis Cariès? – 18601860 – ?
François Lacruz[19] ? – September 1860September 1860 – ?
José Ignacio Mendoza? – December 1860December 1860 – ?
Saladin Lamour[20] ? – August 1862August 1862 – ?
Antoine Laforest? – 18641864 – ?
Michel Dupont? – 18707 June 1874
Dasny Labonté1875?
Louis Audain1876?
Aristide Flambert[21] 1877?
François Hippolyte1878July 1878
Darius DenisJuly 18781878
Brunis MaignanSeptember 18781878 – ?
Morin Montasse1879?
Innocent Michel-Pierre[22] 1880?
Morin Montasse[23] ? – October 18811884
Brunis Maignan[24] 18851888
Néré Numa1889?
Massillon A. Aubry1890?
Charles Archin[25] 18911891
Dulciné Jean-Louis1891?
Brunis Maignan[26] 1892December 1893 – ?
Alexis Dérac[27] ? – August 1894September 1894 – ?
Pierre-Antoine Stewart[28] 18951896
Cadestin Robert[29] ? – August 1897August 1897 – ?
Vaillant Guillaume[30] [31] 18981900
Guillaume[32] ? – 19011901 – ?
Pétion Pierre-André[33] ? – February 1904September 1904 – ?
T. A. Dupiton? – 19061907 – ?
François Paulinus Paulin19091911
Joseph Davilmar Théodore19111912
Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave19131914 – ?
Stephen Archer1915?
Paul Laraque19161916
Abolished19161918
Antoine Dubost19181918 – ?
Stephen Archer? – 19191922
Fouchard Martineau[34] ? – 19311934 – ?
Louis S. Zéphirin[35] 19351940 – ?
Alfred Nemours Auguste[36] 19431946
Jean Bélizaire[37] 19461949 – ?
Charles Fombrun[38] ? – 19511955 – ?
Charles Fombrun9 April 19567 February 1957
Emile Saint-Lot19571957
Hugues Bourjolly[39] 19571958 – ?
Antoine Marthold[40] 19591961[41]
Abolished1961January 1988
Louis J. Noisin[42] January 1988June 1988
No legislatureJune 1988February 1991[43]
Endrice Raymond[44] 19911991FNCD
Déjean Bélizaire[45] ? - August 199131 January 1993MNP 28
Firmin Jean-Louis[46] and Thomas Eddy Dupiton31 January 19934 February 1994FNCD
Bernard Sansaricq4 February 1994October 1994
Firmin Jean-LouisOctober 199413 October 1995FNCD
Edgard Leblanc Fils13 October 1995[47] March 2000 – ?OPL
Yvon Neptune[48] 28 August 200014 March 2002Fanmi Lavalas
Fourel Célestin[49] 27 March 200229 August 2004Fanmi Lavalas
Yvon Feuillé29 August 20048 September 2004
No legislatureSeptember 2004May 2006
Joseph Lambert11 May 20062006Lespwa
Kely BastienJanuary 20082011Lespwa
Jean Rodolphe Joazile24 January 20119 January 2012PONT
Simon Dieuseul Desras9 January 201212 January 2015Lavni
Riché Andris12 January 201514 January 2016Alternative
Jocelerme Privert14 January 201614 February 2016INITE
Ronald Larêche14 February 201613 January 2017VÉRITÉ
Youri Latortue13 January 20179 January 2018AAA
Joseph Lambert9 January 201817 January 2019KONA
Carl Murat Cantave17 January 201914 January 2020KID
Pierre François Sildor14 January 202012 January 2021PHTK
Joseph Lambert12 January 202111 January 2022KONA
Joseph Lambert11 January 202210 January 2023KONA

See also

Notes

Further reading

Notes and References

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