Hold off transition, (Haitian) prime minister says

[Mika]

Hold off transition, prime minister says
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/8110219.htm

Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune on Thursday said choice of a new prime minister and a transition government should be delayed until allegations about the resignation of Jean-Bertrand Aristide can be put to rest.

The former president, who remains in the Central African Republic, told a French writer Thursday that he wants to return to Haiti but would go to South Africa if he must.

Neptune, speaking by telephone from his office in Port-au-Prince, where he is under U.S. Marines protection, told The Herald that if Aristide's resignation this weekend occurred under duress, then it was not constitutional.

His calls for an investigation and a delay of the current process echo those of the Caribbean Community, which is demanding an international inquiry, and Aristide himself, who on Thursday called for a U.S. congressional probe.

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''There should be an investigation,'' said Neptune, who said he learned of Aristide's resignation only when provisional President Boniface Alexandre presented him with Aristide's signed resignation.

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1. This is very interesting

According to the Haitian Constitution, in order for 'provisional President Alexandre' to be sworn in, Prime Minister Neptune must convene the parliament for a vote to confirm.

If he does not, then Alexandre cannot legally be made 'provisional President' (maybe they think that title has a better ring to it than 'Proconsul' or 'Governor').

They have some checks and balances in their constitution as well...