Chamber of Deputies Chambre des députés Chanm Depite | |
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Currently Dissolved | |
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Type | |
Type | of the Haitian Parliament |
Term limits | No limits |
Structure | |
Seats | 119 |
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Political groups | Vacant: 119 seats |
Length of term | Four years[1] |
Elections | |
Two-round system | |
Last election | 2015–16 |
Next election | Unknown |
Meeting place | |
Port-au-Prince | |
Website | |
http://www.chambredesdeputes.ht/ |
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The Chamber of Deputies (French: Chambre des députés; Haitian Creole: Chanm Depite) is the lower house of Haiti's bicameral legislature, the Haitian Parliament. The upper house of the Haitian Parliament is the Senate of Haiti. The Chamber has 119 members (previously 99) who are elected by popular vote to four-year terms. There are no term limits for Deputies; they may be re-elected indefinitely.
In March 2015 a new electoral decree stated that the new Chamber of Deputies have 118 members, and the Senate will retain the 30 members.[2] On 13 March, President Michel Martelly issued a decree that split the Cerca La Source into two constituencies, and therefore increasing the number of deputies up to 119.[3]
Elections history
[edit]The first bicameral legislature, created under Alexandre Pétion's 1816 revision to the 1806 constitution, formed the Senate as the upper house and the Chamber of Representatives of the Communes as the lower house. The Chamber, which was first elected on 10 February 1817 and held its first session on 22 April 1817, elected Pierre André as its first president of the chamber. Pétion gave his final public speech in front of the newly-seated chamber, but then suspended the legislature the following year.
Candidates from Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas party took 73 of the then 83 seats in the 2000 elections. Following the overthrow of the government in February 2004, an interim government was established. The terms of the Deputies expired during the rule of the interim government and the Chamber remained empty. It was re-established along with the Senate, and elections were scheduled for November 2005. After many delays and missed deadlines, elections were finally held on 21 April 2006. The Deputies commenced meeting in June 2006. The exact makeup of the Chamber remains unknown as the Provisional Electoral Committee (CEP) has not posted the results. The next Chamber elections were scheduled for 2010. There were new parliamentary elections in 2015–16.
Previous composition
[edit]Party | Deputies | ||||||
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1st Round | 2nd Round | Total | |||||
Haitian Tèt Kale Party (PHTK) | 4 | 22 | 26 | ||||
Plateforme Vérité (VERITE) | 1 | 12 | 13 | ||||
Konvansyon Inite Demokratik (KID) | 0 | 7 | 7 | ||||
Struggling People's Organization (OPL) | 0 | 7 | 7 | ||||
Fanmi Lavalas (FL) | 0 | 6 | 6 | ||||
Haiti in Action (AAA) | 2 | 4 | 6 | ||||
Patriotic Unity (INITE PATRIYOTIK) | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
Alternative League for Haitian Progress and Emancipation (LAPEH) | 0 | 3 | 3 | ||||
Fusion of Haitian Social Democrats (FSDH) | 0 | 3 | 3 | ||||
Reseau National Bouclier (BOUCLIER) | 0 | 3 | 3 | ||||
Renmen Ayiti | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Tet Kole sous Chimen Devlopman pou un Nord'Ouest uni et Renonve (MOSANO) | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Consortium National des Partis Politiques Haïtiens (CONSORTIUM) | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Pont | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Platfom Pitit Desalin | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Parti pour la Libération des Masses et d'Intégration Sociale (PALMIS) | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Konbit Travaye Peyizan pou Libere Ayiti (KONTRA PEP LA) | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Mouvement National Haïtien (MONHA) | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Konsyans Patriotik (KP) | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Federalist Party (PF) | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Mouvement Action Socialiste (MAS) | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Seats that haven't been awarded yet (currently vacant) | 27 | ||||||
Total | 8 | 84 | 119 | ||||
Sources: [1], [2], [3] |
Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies
[edit]Le Président de la Chambre / Prezidan Chanm Depite
Name | Took office | Left office |
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Pierre André | ? - 1817 | 1817–? |
N.-D. Lafargue[4] | ? - July 1820 | July 1820–? |
Pierre André[5] | ? - 1820 | 1820–? |
Doizé Pouponneau | ? - November 1821 | November 1821–? |
Caminero[6] | ? - October 1822 | 1825–? |
Beaubrun Ardouin[7] | ? - January 1826 | January 1826–? |
Franco Travieso | ? - 1826 | 1826–? |
P. Muzaine[8] | ? - 1826 | 1826–? |
M. Duval[9] | ? - 1827 | 1827 |
Jean Benis[9] | 1827 | 1827 |
Jacques Depa[9] | 1827 | 1827–? |
M. Druilhet[9] | ? - 1828 | 1828 |
Doizé Pouponneau[9] | 1828 | 1828 |
D. Villedautant[9] | 1828 | 1829–? |
E. Legros[9] | ? - 1830 | 1830 |
Doizé Pouponneau[9] | 1830 | 1830–? |
A. Massez[9] | ? - 1831 | 1831–? |
J. S. Milscent[9] | ? - 1832 | 1832 |
G. Malval[9] | 1832 | 1832–? |
J. S. Milscent[9] | ? - September 1833 | June 1835–? |
Phanor Dupin[10] | ? - October 1839 | October 1839–? |
H.-In. Joseph[5] | ? - 1848 | 1848–? |
Brutus de Jean-Simon[11] | ? - September 1849 | September 1849–? |
Brutus de Jean-Simon[5] | ? - 1852 | 1852–? |
Jean-François Acloque | ? | ? |
Panayoty[5] | ? - 1859 | 1859–? |
V. Lizaire[5] | ? - 1860 | 1860–? |
W. Chanlatte[5] | ? - September 1860 | December 1860–? |
R. A. Deslandes[12] | ? - July 1862 | August 1862–? |
P.-N. Valcin[5] | ? - 1864 | 1864–? |
T. Chalviré[5] | ? - 1870 | 1870–? |
Jeantel Manigat | ? - 1870 | 1870–? |
J. Thébaud | ? - 1874 | 1874–? |
Hannibal Price | 1876 | 1876 |
Eugène Margron[13] | ? - August 1877 | August 1877–? |
Hannibal Price[5] | ? - 1878 | 1878–? |
Demesvar Delorme[14] | ? - 1879 | 1879–? |
Guillaume Manigat[15] | ? - October 1880 | October 1880–? |
François Manigat[16] | April 1881 | October 1881–? |
Edmond Paul | ? | ? |
Ripert Honorat[17] | ? - February 1883 | February 1883–? |
Osman Piquant[5] | ? - August 1884 | September 1884–? |
Fabius Ducasse[18] | ? - October 1885 | October 1885–? |
Dorvil Théodore[16] | ? - June 1887 | June 1887–? |
Oswald Durand[19] | 1888 | 1888 |
M. Stewart President of the constitutional assembly |
? | 1889 |
Pétion Pierre-André[20] | ? - September 1891 | September 1892–? |
M. Stewart[21] | ? - September 1893 | December 1893–? |
J. M. Grandoit[22] | ? - July 1894 | December 1894–? |
Vilbrun Guillaume Sam[23] | ? - July 1895 – 1896 | October 1897–? |
Camille Saint-Rémy[24] | 1898 | 1898 |
Henri Prophète[25] | 1899 | 1900 |
Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave[26] | ? - September 1901 | September 1901–? |
Stephen Archer[27] | ? - February 1904 | 1906–? |
G. Desrosiers[28] | 1909 | 1911 |
St-Amand Blot | ? - 1913 | 1913–? |
Denis Saint-Aude | ? - 1914 | 1914–? |
Annulysse André | 1915 | ? |
J. M. Grandoit[29] | ? - 1922 | 1925 |
Em. J. Thomas[29] | 1925 | 1925 |
Edmond Montas[29] | 1925 | 1926 |
Em. J. Thomas[30] | 1926 | 1927 |
Charles Bouchereau[31] | 1927 | 1928 |
Antoine C. Sansaricq[32] | 1928 | 1929 |
F. Robinson[32] | 1929 | 1929–? |
Joseph Jolibois | 1930 | 1931 |
Joseph Loubeau[28] | 1931 | ? |
Denis Saint-Aude President of the constitutional assembly |
? - 1932 | 1933–? |
Edg. Pierre-Louis[33] | ? | 1934 |
Dumarsais Estimé | 1934 | 1935 |
Louis S. Zéphirin[34] | 1936 | 1939 |
Edouard Piou[35] | 1939 | 1940–? |
Théophile J. B. Richard | ? - 1943 | 1943–? |
Hugues Bourjolly[36] | ? - January 1944 | January 1944–? |
Théophile J. B. Richard | ? - 1945 | 1946–? |
Joseph Loubeau[37] | ? - 1946 | 1949 |
Dumas Michel | 1949 | 1949–? |
Adelphin Telson[38] | 4 April 1950 | 1955–? |
Salnave C. Zamor[39] | 1956 | 1956–? |
Rameau Estimé[40] | ? - 1958 | 1960–? |
Luc F. François[41] | ? - 1961 | 1962–? |
Rameau Estimé[42] | 1962 | 1963 |
Jean M. Julme[43] | ? - 1963 | 1964–? |
Ulrick Saint-Louis[44] | 1971 | ? |
Victor Nevers Constant[45] | ? - 1977 | 1981 |
Jaurès Levêque[46] | ? - 1983 | 1985–? |
No legislature | 1986 | 1987 |
Émile Jonassaint[47] President of the constitutional assembly |
? - March 1987 | 1988 |
Jacques Saint-Louis[48] | January 1988 | June 1988 |
No legislature | June 1988 | February 1991 |
Ernst Pedro Casséus[49] | 1991 | 20 August 1991 |
Pierre Duly Brutus[50] | 20 August 1991[51] | 1992 |
Alexandre Médard[52] | 15 January 1992 | January 1993[53] |
Antoine Joseph[54] | January 1993[53] | January 1994 |
Frantz Robert Mondé[54][52] | 13 January 1994 | 1994 |
Pierre Duly Brutus[50] | 1994 | 1995 |
Fritz Robert Saint Paul[55] | 8 November 1995 | December 1996–? |
Kely Bastien[56] | 14 January 1997[57] | January 1998[58] |
Vasco Thernélan[56] | January 1998[58] | January 1999–?[59] |
Sainvoyis Pascal[60] | 28 August 2000 | 2000 |
Pierre Paul Cotin[61][62] | ? – December 2000 | 28 February 2002 |
Rudy Hériveaux[63] | 28 February 2002 | October 2002–? |
Yves Cristalin[64] | ? – April 2003 | January 2004 |
No legislature | January 2004 | May 2006 |
Pierre Eric Jean-Jacques | May 2006 | 2009 |
Levaillant Louis Jeune[65] | January 2009 | 2011 |
Sorel Jacinthe | 2011 | 2012 |
Jean Tholbert Alèxis | 2012 | 2014 |
Stevenson Jacques Timoléon | 2014 | 2016 |
Cholzer Chancy | 2016 | 10 January 2018 |
Gary Bodeau[66] | 10 January 2018 | 13 January 2020 |
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- "Haiti". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. 14 November 2006. Retrieved 17 November 2006.
- Schutt-Ainé, Patricia (1994). Haiti: A Basic Reference Book. Miami, Florida: Librairie Au Service de la Culture. p. 166. ISBN 0-9638599-0-0.
- About parliament - Chamber of Deputies, Inter-Parliamentary Union