Friday morning at the National Palace, the day after a day of violent protest and while tires were burning all over the capital and sporadic automatic gunfire being heard not far from the Palace https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-26885-haiti-flash-2nd-day-of-violent-demonstrations-at-least-3-dead-and-many-injured.html , President Jovenel Moïse met the rice importers of Artibonite to analyze the possibilities of reducing the price of this commodity, one of the most important in the Haitian housewife's basket.

During this meeting, the Head of State stressed that the problems are not only political, ensuring that he will not leave power before the end of his term, encouraging the opposition that claims his resignation, if it has a solution to solve the crisis through the country, to take the path of the polls and to respect the Constitution.

At the end of this meeting, he went to a press conference at the Palace around the expensive life, with more than 3 hours late...

Lasting only 10 minutes, the Head of State had little to report on his meeting with the importer of rice except that he had instructed the Prime Minister to find an agreement with rice importers in view of the fall in the price of rice and that he was waiting for the result of the negotiations on Saturday.

Regarding the budget deficit he spoke of the decision to reduce the lifestyle of the State https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-26855-haiti-flash-jovenel-moise-declares-the-state-of-economic-emergency-in-the-country.html and the state of economic emergency https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-26868-haiti-politic-texts-of-the-resolution-of-the-state-of-emergency-and-the-11-measures.html and the new Governance Pact signed between the Ministry of Finance and the BRH https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-26844-haiti-flash-the-state-signs-a-new-pact-of-economic-governance-with-the-brh.html which should ensure that the deficit does not exceed 1 billion Gourdes per month...

Asked about his resignation loudly demanded by the opposition, he rejected the call again and said "We are for the respect of the Constitution. We participated in an election [...] We were elected President. We are willing to talk with all our brothers and sisters about the difficulties the country faces. If a person thinks or imagines having a ready-made solution, the only way that this solution can be put on the table is to go to the elections to make the promise," explained Jovenel Moïse adding "We know that the problem of country is not only political. It is social and economic. We must sit down and look in each other's eyes to put the country on the path of change."

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-26885-haiti-flash-2nd-day-of-violent-demonstrations-at-least-3-dead-and-many-injured.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-26875-haiti-flash-important-damage-at-least-4-dead-and-21-wounded-during-the-demonstrations.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-26855-haiti-flash-jovenel-moise-declares-the-state-of-economic-emergency-in-the-country.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-26844-haiti-flash-the-state-signs-a-new-pact-of-economic-governance-with-the-brh.html

SL/ HaitiLibre