A coup would have been thwarted in Haiti on Sunday, Justice Minister Rockefeller Vincent reports. According to him, President Jovenel Moïse would have been prevented from being murdered and taken over. 23 people were arrested. According to the opposition, Moïse’s term would have ended on Sunday.
The authorities in Haiti would have prevented President Jovenel Moïs from being assassinated and taken over, Justice Minister Rockefeller Vincent reports. 23 alleged coup plotters have been arrested, including a high judge and a police officer.
In the Caribbean country there is disagreement about the mandate of the president. The opposition is demanding Moïse’s resignation because his term would expire on Sunday, after five years. But the president, who has been in office for a year without any control, insists he will stay on until February 7, 2022, because an interim government would have ruled the first year of his presidency.
The US accepted a longer stay from Moïse, in office since February 2017, at the presidential palace on Friday. Foreign spokesman Ned Price added that Washington has pushed for “free and fair elections so that parliament can once again play its rightful role”.
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