ZANMI PÈP PLATFORM POSITION STATEMENT
By La Rédaction · Port-au-Prince
· 2 min read · Updated 24 April 2026
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Against the unconstitutional draft Constitution, disconnected from national reality.
The Zanmi Pèp Political Platform wishes to express its strong opposition to the draft Constitution recently submitted to the Presidential Transitional Council (CPT), a body we have always denounced as illegitimate, illegal, and unpopular.
Indeed, Article 284.3 of the 1987 Constitution is clear and unequivocal: Any popular consultation aimed at modifying the constitution by referendum is formally prohibited.
Thus, any attempt to modify Haiti's Mother Law by referendum constitutes a blatant violation of the constitutional order. The project put forward by the CPT, far from correcting past abuses, reproduces authoritarian logics by attempting to impose a reform without legal basis, without popular mandate, without minimal security, and without transparency.
We recall that the Zanmi Pèp Platform has already alerted the OAS, the United Nations Office in Haiti (BNUH), as well as the embassies of France, Canada, and the United States, to the dangers posed by the continued existence of the CPT, an unelected, unrepresentative body, incapable of restoring security, and without any capacity to organize credible elections.
Even today, the country's reality is marked by:
Generalized insecurity and the absence of territorial control by authorities;
The exclusion of the majority of the Nation's vital forces from the political process;
The manifest popular rejection of any attempt to impose a constitutional text under duress or in opacity. Faced with this situation, the Zanmi Pèp Platform demands the immediate resignation of the Presidential Transitional Council (CPT) as well as that of Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, who have neither the legitimacy, nor the competence, nor the political will to extricate the country from the current crisis. The Haitian people deserve a genuine process of democratic refoundation, participatory, transparent, and inclusive. This draft Constitution represents neither the popular will nor a viable solution for the future of Haiti. For popular sovereignty, for respect for the 1987 Constitution, for a truly patriotic and democratic transition: We say NO to a fake Constitution!
We say YES to the people's deliverance! For the Zanmi Pèp Platform:
Abel Loreston
Boirond Emmanuel jr.
Generalized insecurity and the absence of territorial control by authorities;
The exclusion of the majority of the Nation's vital forces from the political process;
The manifest popular rejection of any attempt to impose a constitutional text under duress or in opacity. Faced with this situation, the Zanmi Pèp Platform demands the immediate resignation of the Presidential Transitional Council (CPT) as well as that of Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, who have neither the legitimacy, nor the competence, nor the political will to extricate the country from the current crisis. The Haitian people deserve a genuine process of democratic refoundation, participatory, transparent, and inclusive. This draft Constitution represents neither the popular will nor a viable solution for the future of Haiti. For popular sovereignty, for respect for the 1987 Constitution, for a truly patriotic and democratic transition: We say NO to a fake Constitution!
We say YES to the people's deliverance! For the Zanmi Pèp Platform:
Abel Loreston
Boirond Emmanuel jr.
