Lucien Francoeur - Haiti Observer Blog

Senators in the Haitian Parliament are frustrated, concerned, and angry over two postponements by Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe to convoke a senate meeting on pressing issues: budget allocations and terrorist-support activities.

Primature Secretary General, Lucien Francoeur, Lamothe's representative, sent letters to Senator Steven Benoit, cancelling meetings scheduled for May 28th and 30th to address the issues. Benoit feels Lamothe has patronized the opposition by not directly responding himself.

Benoit and his supporters, Moise Jean-Charles, Jean-Baptiste Bien-Aimé, Jean William Jeanty, Wesner Polycarpe, John Annick, and François Joseph need answers why 2012 expenditures favored the National Fund for Education. They charge this was a mis-use of Treasury monies and a devaluation of the Haitian gourde. They think the monies should have been used to restore the National Palace damaged by the 2010 earthquake.

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