"I can not go from 7 February," said Monday, January 10 Haitian President Rene Preval. According to the Haitian Constitution, the president, elected for five years, has to leave power on February 7 for the fifth year of his mandate. But René Préval, who was sworn in May 14, 2006, argued that he could remain in power in order to complete the five-year, due to the problems posed by the contested results of the first round of elections, November 28, 2010.He recalled that a law passed May 4, 2010 allowed him to stay in power beyond the February 7 elections if were not held in time to allow him to leave. "I wanted to leave on February 7 but when you see what happened with the protests, this time there will not be a new president elected," he said, pending the report of a mission Experts from the Organization of American States on the results of the first round.
Rene Preval says he did not receive the report, which recommended to reject the government candidate, Jude Celestin, who arrived just in the second round. "If the election process continues, if elections are February 15, I'm leaving on February 15, in March or April until 14 May," he said.
The outgoing president has once again warned against the establishment of a provisional government, he said, would be detrimental to the stability for reconstruction and investment: "A provisional government would never make elections less of ninety days. (...) We need a president elected to replace an elected president, it will be good for continuity, for stability.
" For twenty-five years, "one president could finish his term, only one president will finish his second term, a late René Préval. This is not normal that all the presidents of Haiti always end up either in exile or in prison. " He said that on polling day on 28 November, the international community had offered him a plane to leave.
"I said no, I would not leave," he revealed, confirming the words of a diplomat accredited to the OAS in Haiti.
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