Before the budget vote, MPs fight with fists Divided on the question of voting the Finance Act 2013-2014, Wednesday afternoon, members agreed to resolve their differences with their fists. The budget was passed anyway. If the member Fritz Gerald Bourjolly member of PEP was the biggest victim of this fight, the parliamentary stresses that was not the only one to be molested ... Like schoolboys in a playground. Noise, fights, insults, and then fight. The representatives of the people came to blows in full sitting room. Swearing, shoving, punching, slapping ... Deputies are trying to resolve their disagreements. In the ring, members of pro-government majority bloc, Parliamentarians for Stability and Progress (PSP), facing the two minority blocks, Parliamentarians for political balance (PEP) and Parliamentarians for institutional renewal (PRI). It all started with the discussion of the development proposal on the agenda of the meeting of Wednesday, August 7, 2013. While the amendments to the Electoral Act 2008 already voted in the Senate who avoid a possible return of Parliament on January 14, 2014 were before the passing of the Finance Act 2013 to 2014, members of the PSP intervened to require first the budget vote and the law on money laundering and terrorism. This is what was a priority for them, explained to Nouvelliste the PRI president, MP Shadrach Dieudonné. Following a vote, the agenda was adopted with the amendments proposed by members of the PSP changes. At this time, members of the PRI and the PEP tried to deny a quorum in protest. According to the deputy Shadrach Dieudonné, although the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Jean Tolbert Alexis, has found that the quorum was reversed, he left the room without adjournment to allow time (45 minutes) to gather PSP members and reconfirm the quorum. It should also be noted that the elected Croix-des-Bouquets and the Gonaives are never on good terms. 45 minutes have elapsed, the session was resumed. Realizing the situation, members of the PRI and the PEP decided to use other means to prevent the holding of the meeting, and suddenly boycott the vote on the budget. Some criticize the government have never released the 10 million gourdes allocated to their respective constituencies. While the deputy Cholzer Chancy began to read at the meeting the report of the Committee on Finance on the budget, the independent member Joachim Orélien is interposed snatching the microphone to the mouth of his parliamentary colleague. "It is at this point that members of the PSP have rallied in front of the grandstand, said Shadrach Dieudonné. Then the deputy Kenston Jean-Baptiste shook Joachim Orélien ... " Following the scramble, other members have spoken, which led to a brawl rule in which, among others, members Fritz Gerald Bourjolly (PEP) and Jean Rene Lochard (PSP) have clashed punches like a boxing match in the street. Emmanuel Fritz Gerald Bourjolly confessed that he received a lot of shots, but claimed he was not the only one to have received. "Yes, there was a lot of punches, but it was to defend the interests of the country," confirmed the parliamentary Nouvelliste. After the incident, said the MP, there was a closed session and the session was resumed with the vote of the national budget. According Bourjolly, reached by telephone by The Nouvelliste while he was sitting room after the fight, they agreed to continue the meeting. "Everything is back to normal, the amendments to the Electoral Act 2008 will be voted on," he said, stressing that there was no personal issue between him and his colleague Lochard. In the end, the Finance Bill 2013-2014 was adopted and members have had time to read the report on amendments to the Electoral Act 2008. The document will be put to the vote at the next meeting.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 21:56:09 +0000
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