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﻿ IPU PARLINE database: HAITI (Chambre des Députés), Full text
Affiliation date(s) 1954 - 1960
President Gary Bodeau (M)
Notes Elu le 10 jan. 2018.
Secretary General Guy Gérard Georges (M)
Notes Appointed on 4 Sep. 2017.
Members (statutory / current number) 119 / 118 PERCENTAGE OF WOMEN
Women (current number) 3 (2.54%)
Mode of designation directly elected 119
Last renewal dates 9 August 2015
25 October 2015 (View details)
Avenue Marie Jeanne,
Phone (509) 36 77 02 86
38 69 65 99
31 13 63 29
E-mail secretariatgeneralcdhaiti@yahoo.fr
Electoral law 2 March 2015
Last modification: 13 March 2015
Constituencies 119 single-member constituencies.
Voting system Majority: Majority system with a possible second round.
To win a seat in the first round, candidates must obtain 50 per cent of the valid votes or have a lead equal to or greater than twenty-five per cent of the valid votes over the candidate with the second-highest number of votes. If no candidate satisfies these conditions in the first round, a second round is held. An absolute majority is no longer required in that round.
Vacancies arising between general elections are filled through by-elections, unless those vacancies occur during or following the last ordinary session of the legislature.
Voter requirements - age: 18 at the time of registration
- disqualifications: imprisonment, insanity/mental illness, conviction for a criminal offence, persons under guardianship/wards, holders of temporary entry permits, undocumented immigrants
- residence in the constituency concerned for at least two consecutive years
- ownership of real property or employment/trade in the constituency
Incompatibilities - managers of public funds, who may stand for election but are relieved of their duties if elected
- members of the executive branch and directors general of public administration bodies who did not resign at least one year before the elections
Candidacy requirements - monetary deposit of 5,000 gourdes
- one half of the deposit is reimbursed for political parties winning at least 2 per cent of the valid votes nationwide
Timing and scope of renewal No party won a majority in either chamber of the bicameral parliament in these delayed elections. The Haitian Tet Kale Party (PHTK, meaning "bald headed") supporting President Michel Martelly, and its allies, took 41 seats (see note 1) in the 119-member Chamber of Deputies (see note 2). The principal opposition parties won 33 seats (see note 3). Due to successive delays in holding the elections, two-thirds of the 30-member Senate (instead of one third) was renewed in 2015. No party won more than three seats, returning a fragmented Senate.
Political Group Total of seats 1st round 2nd round
Start of the mandate · When the MPs take the oath at the first sitting of the Chamber of Deputies (Art. 29 of the Standing Orders; see also Art. 92-1 of the Constitution of 29.03.1987 and Art. 5 of the Standing Orders). Procedure (Art. 109 of the Constitution, Art. 26 to 29 of the Standing Orders).
Validation of mandates · Validation by the Chamber of Deputies, meeting in special committees (Art. 108 of the Constitution) Procedure (Art. 11 to 14, 20 to 25 of the Standing Orders)
End of the mandate · On the day when the legal term of the House ends (the Chamber cannot be dissolved; see Art. 111-8 of the Constitution)
· Procedure: MPs give notification of resignation to the President of the Board of the Chamber, who places the matter on the agenda of a sitting.
· Authority competent to accept the resignation: the Chamber of Deputies
Can MPs lose their mandate ? Yes (a)	Loss of mandate by judicial decision resulting in ineligibility (Art. 113 of the Constitution)
Rank in hierarchy · Outside Parliament: the official order of precedence ranks the President in the 4th position
· Basic salary (see also Art. 129 of the Constitution: HTG 27,500
+ Allowance for fixed expenses: HTG 5,000
(a)	Office in the electoral constituency
(b)	General Secretariat (Art. 112 of the Constitution, Art. 31 to 31.3 of the Standing Orders)
(c)	Official housing: Allowance for a second home: HTG 5,000
(e)	Travel and transport on official missions
Parliamentary immunity - parliamentary non-accountability · The concept exists (Art. 114-1 of the Constitutions)
· Derogations: slander or libel
· Non-accountability takes effect on the day when the mandate begins (Art. 114 of the Constitution) and offers, after the expiry of the mandate, protection against prosecution for opinions expressed during the exercise of the mandate.
Parliamentary immunity - parliamentary inviolability · The concept exists (Art. 114-2 and 115 of the Constitution).
· It applies only to criminal proceedings, covers all offences with the exception of minor infractions and protects MPs only from arrest and from being held in preventive custody, from the opening of judicial proceedings against them and from their homes being searched.
·Derogations: in cases of flagrante delicto for acts liable to a corporal and infamous sentence, the authorisation of the Chamber is not necessary for arrest.
· Protection is provided from the start to the end of the mandate (Art. 114 of the Constitution). It does not also cover judicial proceedings instituted against MPs before their election. In such cases, however, MPs' mandates may not be validated (see Procedure for validation of mandates).
· Parliamentary immunity (inviolability) can be lifted (Art. 115 of the Constitution):
- Procedure (Art. 115 of the Constitution, Art. 303 to 311 of the Standing Orders). In this case, MPs can be heard. They do not have means of appeal.
· It is provided by the political parties and certain international bodies.
· A project to edit a handbook of parliamentary procedure is under study.
Participation in the work of the Parliament · It is not compulsory for MPs to be present at plenary sittings or committee meetings (see also Art. 287 to 290 of the Standing Orders).
· Penalties foreseen in case of failure to fulfil this obligation (see also Art. 291 of the Standing Orders):
- Reading out, in a public sitting, posting in the meeting room and publication of the list of absences
- Salary deductions
- Loss of right to be deputised for the remainder of the session and of the right to stand for election to the Board or committees for three consecutive ungrounded absences in plenary sittings or committee meetings (Art. 295 of the Standing Orders)
Discipline · The rules governing discipline within Parliament are contained in Art. 49, 273 to 275 and 283 to 295 of the Standing Orders.
· Disciplinary measures foreseen (Art. 283 of the Standing Orders):
- Call to order (Art. 274, 284 and 292 of the Standing Orders)
- Call to order with entry in the record (Art. 293 of the Standing Orders)
- Censure with one month's forfeiture of one-fourth of the monthly salary allotted to the MP (Art. 285 to 286-2 and 294 of the Standing Orders)
- Warning for irrelevance (Art. 273 of the Standing Orders)
- Offence or insult (Art. 275 of the Standing Orders)
· Competent body to judge such cases (Art. 49 of the Standing Orders):
- Call to order, call to order with entry in the record, warning for irrelevance: the President
- Censure with one month's forfeiture of one-fourth of the monthly salary allotted to MPs: the Chamber, on a proposal by the President
Penalties are imposed by the First Secretary.
- Call to order (Art. 274 and 284 of the Standing Orders)
- Censure with one month's forfeiture of one-fourth of the MPs' monthly salary (Art. 285 to 286-2 of the Standing Orders)
Code (rules) of conduct · This concept does not exist in the country's juridical system but there are some relevant provisions (Art. 112-1 of the Constitution, Art. 296 to 302 of the Standing Orders).
- Call to order (Art. 301 of the Standing Orders)
- Censure (Art. 301 of the Standing Orders)
- Censure: the Chamber of Deputies
Procedure (Art. 112-1 of the Constitution, Art. 297 to 302 of the Standing Orders).