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Constitutional transition: the New Alliance revives debate on the 1987 Constitution

Dr. Berg Hyacinthe and Jean Pierre Bailly

Dr. Berg Hyacinthe and Jean Pierre Bailly

Port-au-Prince, September 8, 2025.- On Monday, September 8, 2025, on Magik 9, the New Alliance for a Constitutional Transition presented two bulletins calling for the restoration of the 1987 Constitution. Its coordinator Jean Pierre Bailly and Dr Berg Hyacinthe, of the Grenadiers platform, call for the replacement of the Transitional Presidential Council (CPT) with a governance from the Court of Cassation, while rejecting the ongoing constitutional reform, the Kenyan force and the role of Caricom in the negotiations.

Guests of the Magik Panel, Jean Pierre Bailly and Dr. Berg Hyacinthe defended the need to return to the 1987 Constitution, judged « on standby » but restored by a simple ministerial decree.
« The full non-application of the 1987 Constitution is responsible for political instability and the inevitable transition power. »said Jean Pierre Bailly.

The New Alliance also confirmed that it had sent a correspondence to the US official in Haiti, Henry Wooster. In this letter, the structure calls for the exclusion of the Caricom from political negotiations, the abandonment of the deployment of the Kenyan force and the cancellation of the ongoing constitutional reform. According to its officials, these requests are already beginning to produce « positive impact ».

As part of the commemoration of the death of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the New Alliance foresees a parade and the deposit of a wreath of flowers symbolically on the grave of the nation's father. A strong gesture was also announced: the symbolic deposit of the 1987 Constitution before the Court of Cassation.

W.A.