Jerry Tardieu Warns New Constitution Would Render Haiti Ungovernable and Exclude the Diaspora

On May 21, 2025, the Steering Committee of the National Conference made public a draft of a new constitution. In theory, the drafting of this document—submitted to the transitional authorities—was supposed to be largely inspired by the report of the Constitutional Working Group (GTC), which in 2024 gathered the opinions of organized sectors of national life and political parties on constitutional reform. Unfortunately, that is not the case. On the contrary, it is clear that the philosophy of the proposed constitutional text runs