According to the Citizen Observatory for the Institutionalization of Democracy (OCID) for the week of October 22 to 26, 2018, after more than a month of dysfunction in Parliament, 17 senators were finally able to organize a plenary session on Tuesday, October 23 during this period.

Senate

This session focused on the report of the Commission "Education and Vocational Training" on 11 objections of President Moïse around the bill on Recognition and Validation of Acquired Professional Experience. The sections of the bill concerned by the objections are: 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16 and 17.

After the adoption of the report of the Committee, the Assembly proceeded to a second reading, article by article, to the vote of the 11 articles. Unfortunately, a power cut (not the first in the past) interrupted the session in Clause 14, forcing Senate Speaker Joseph Lambert to adjourn the session and put it on hold.

Chamber of Deputies

The Economics, Fiances and Budget Committee met Ronald Décembre, the Minister of Economy accompanied by Miradin Morlan the Director General of the General Tax Directorate, Romel Bell, the Director General of the General Administration of Customs and Fils-Aimé Ignace Saint-Fleur, the Director General of the Office for Monetization of Development Assistance Programs with a view to : inquiring into the implementation of the amending budget 2017-2018; inquire about the financial state of the country with a budget deficit of more than 20 billion gourdes and inquire the progress of the process of tabling in Parliament, the budget of the year 2018-2019.

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