Rene Preval starts another “Anti Vodou - Rejete Campaign” in Haiti.
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By choosing the social sectors to be part of the nine members of the new Provisional Electoral Council (CEP), Rene Preval shows to the world his plan to reject Vodou completely during the coming elections and his remaining term in office.
Rene Preval named the new Council Tuesday December 11th, by presidential decree with the mission of organizing the senatorial (1/3) and elections at the collectivity level, which an obliged passage for the formation of the Permanent Electoral Council.
Resulting from the process of consultation which President Rene Préval engaged with various organized sectors of the civil society, the new council is made up of representative’s political parties and of most religion in Haiti except Vodou.
Also for the first time, popular organizations, generally of political Lavalas sensitivity, the female organizations and a representative of the handicapped officially made their entry in the electoral institution while the trade unions of workers and the university are kept aside.
Some political analysts are saying that Rene Preval and his political party “Lespwa” are not counting any more on the Vodou sector to win elections. They must have other tricks in their bags if they are going to win more senate seats in next year elections. While others analysts are saying the very famous Christians’ slogan in Haiti that it is because “Vodou is not an organized sector in Haiti”.
As for the Vodou organizations such as ZANTRAY and MILOKAN, Rene Preval and his political staff, have rejected Vodou as a social factor of growth and his preparing another campaign against the Vodou religion and his members.
The presidential decree naming the nine electoral advisers precise that in addition to the elections intended to provide the seats with ten Senators elected for two years and whose mandate will arrive in the long term second Monday of January, the new Electoral Council has also as a mandate to organize elections “to fill all other vacant elective stations or who could become it”.
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