Chamber of Deputies (Haiti)

Chamber of Deputies Chambre des députés
50th Haitian legislature
National seal of Haiti
Type
Type	Lower house of the National Assembly of Haiti
Term limits	No limits
History
New session started	14 January 2016
Leadership
Speaker	Cholzer Chancy
Structure
Seats	119
Political groups	Famni Lavalas: 6 seats   OPL: 7 seats   VERITE: 13 seats   LAPEH: 3 seats   INITE: 4 seats   FUSION: 3 seats   RENMEN: 2 seats   CONSORTIUM: 2 seats   MOSANO: 2 seats   Parties with one seat: 8   KID: 7 seats   BOUCLIER: 3 seats   PHTK: 26 seats   AAA: 6 seats   Vacant: 27 seats
Length of term	Four years
Elections
Voting system	Absolute majority
Last election	2015
Next election	2019
Meeting place
Port-au-Prince

The Chamber of Deputies (Template:Lang-fr) is the lower house of Haiti's bicameral legislature, the National Assembly. The upper house of the National Assembly is the Senate of Haiti. The Chamber has 119 members (previously ninety-nine) 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. On 13 March, President Michel Martelly issued a decree that split the Cerca La Source in two constituencies, and therefore increasing the number of deputies up to 119.

Elections history

Candidates from Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas party took seventy-three of the then eighty-three 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.

In 2015 there were new parliamentary elections.

Current composition

Party		Deputies
		1st Round	2nd Round	Total
bgcolor=Template:Haitian Tèt Kale Party/meta/color|	Haitian Tèt Kale Party (PHTK)	4	22	26
	Truth (VERITE)	1	12	13
	Konvansyon Inite Demokratik (KID)	0	7	7
bgcolor=Template:Struggling People's Organization/meta/color|	Struggling People's Organization (OPL)	0	7	7
bgcolor=Template:Fanmi Lavalas/meta/color|	Fanmi Lavalas (FL)	0	6	6
bgcolor=Template:Haiti in Action/meta/color|	Haiti in Action (AAA)	2	4	6
bgcolor=Template:Patriotic Unity/meta/color|	Patriotic Unity (INITE PATRIYOTIK)	1	3	4
bgcolor=Template:Alternative League for Haitian Progress and Empowerment/meta/color|	Alternative League for Haitian Progress and Empowerment (LAPEH)	0	3	3
bgcolor=Template:Fusion of Haitian Social Democrats/meta/color|	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
	Vacant seats that hasn't been awarded yet			27
Total		8	84	119
Sources: [2], [3], [4]

Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies

• Hannibal Price
• Joseph Jolibois (c. 1930)
• Antoine Joseph
• Bob Monde
• Duly Brutus (c. 1995)
• Pierre Eric Jean-Jacques (–2009)
• Levaillant Louis Jeune (2009–2011)
• Sorel Jacinthe (2011–2012)
• Stevenson Jacques Timoléon (2014–2016)
• Cholzer Chancy (2016–)

See also

• List of current members of the National Assembly of Haiti

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from The World Factbook. CIA.

• "Haiti". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. 2006-11-14. Retrieved 2006-11-17.
• Schutt-Ainé, Patricia (1994). Haiti: A Basic Reference Book. Miami, Florida: Librairie Au Service de la Culture. p. 166. ISBN 0-9638599-0-0.