Chamber of Deputies (Haiti)

The Chamber of Deputies (French: Chambre des députés; Haitian Creole: Chanm Depite) is the lower house of Haiti's bicameral legislature, the Haitian Parliament. The upper house of the Haitian Parliament is the Senate of Haiti. The Chamber has 119 members (previously 99) who are elected by popular vote to four-year terms. There are no term limits for Deputies; they may be re-elected indefinitely.

Chamber of Deputies Chambre des députés Chanm Depite
Currently Dissolved
National emblem of Haiti
Type
Type	Lower house of the Haitian Parliament
Term limits	No limits
Structure
Seats	119
Political groups	Vacant: 119 seats
Length of term	Four years[1]
Elections
Voting system	Two-round system
Last election	2015–16
Next election	Unknown
Meeting place
Port-au-Prince
Website
http://www.chambredesdeputes.ht/

In March 2015 a new electoral decree stated that the new Chamber of Deputies have 118 members, and the Senate will retain the 30 members.^[2] On 13 March, President Michel Martelly issued a decree that split the Cerca La Source into two constituencies, and therefore increasing the number of deputies up to 119.^[3]

Elections history

The first bicameral legislature, created under Alexandre Pétion's 1816 revision to the 1806 constitution, formed the Senate as the upper house and the Chamber of Representatives of the Communes as the lower house. The Chamber, which was first elected on 10 February 1817 and held its first session on 22 April 1817, elected Pierre André as its first president of the chamber. Pétion gave his final public speech in front of the newly-seated chamber, but then suspended the legislature the following year.

Candidates from Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas party took 73 of the then 83 seats in the 2000 elections. Following the overthrow of the government in February 2004, an interim government was established. The terms of the Deputies expired during the rule of the interim government and the Chamber remained empty. It was re-established along with the Senate, and elections were scheduled for November 2005. After many delays and missed deadlines, elections were finally held on 21 April 2006. The Deputies commenced meeting in June 2006. The exact makeup of the Chamber remains unknown as the Provisional Electoral Committee (CEP) has not posted the results. The next Chamber elections were scheduled for 2010. There were new parliamentary elections in 2015–16.

Previous composition

Party		Deputies
		1st Round	2nd Round	Total
	Haitian Tèt Kale Party (PHTK)	4	22	26
	Plateforme Vérité (VERITE)	1	12	13
	Konvansyon Inite Demokratik (KID)	0	7	7
	Struggling People's Organization (OPL)	0	7	7
	Fanmi Lavalas (FL)	0	6	6
	Haiti in Action (AAA)	2	4	6
	Patriotic Unity (INITE PATRIYOTIK)	1	3	4
	Alternative League for Haitian Progress and Emancipation (LAPEH)	0	3	3
	Fusion of Haitian Social Democrats (FSDH)	0	3	3
	Reseau National Bouclier (BOUCLIER)	0	3	3
	Renmen Ayiti	0	2	2
	Tet Kole sous Chimen Devlopman pou un Nord'Ouest uni et Renonve (MOSANO)	0	2	2
	Consortium National des Partis Politiques Haïtiens (CONSORTIUM)	0	2	2
	Pont	0	1	1
	Platfom Pitit Desalin	0	1	1
	Parti pour la Libération des Masses et d'Intégration Sociale (PALMIS)	0	1	1
	Konbit Travaye Peyizan pou Libere Ayiti (KONTRA PEP LA)	0	1	1
	Mouvement National Haïtien (MONHA)	0	1	1
	Konsyans Patriotik (KP)	0	1	1
	Federalist Party (PF)	0	1	1
	Mouvement Action Socialiste (MAS)	0	1	1
	Seats that haven't been awarded yet (currently vacant)			27
Total		8	84	119
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Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies

Le Président de la Chambre / Prezidan Chanm Depite

Name	Took office	Left office	Party
Pierre André	? - 1817	1817–?
N.-D. Lafargue[4]	? - July 1820	July 1820–?
Pierre André[5]	? - 1820	1820–?
Doizé Pouponneau	? - November 1821	November 1821–?
Caminero[6]	? - October 1822	1825–?
Beaubrun Ardouin[7]	? - January 1826	January 1826–?
Franco Travieso	? - 1826	1826–?
P. Muzaine[8]	? - 1826	1826–?
M. Duval[9]	? - 1827	1827
Jean Benis[9]	1827	1827
Jacques Depa[9]	1827	1827–?
M. Druilhet[9]	? - 1828	1828
Doizé Pouponneau[9]	1828	1828
D. Villedautant[9]	1828	1829–?
E. Legros[9]	? - 1830	1830
Doizé Pouponneau[9]	1830	1830–?
A. Massez[9]	? - 1831	1831–?
J. S. Milscent[9]	? - 1832	1832
G. Malval[9]	1832	1832–?
J. S. Milscent[9]	? - September 1833	June 1835–?
Phanor Dupin[10]	? - October 1839	October 1839–?
H.-In. Joseph[5]	? - 1848	1848–?
Brutus de Jean-Simon[11]	? - September 1849	September 1849–?
Brutus de Jean-Simon[5]	? - 1852	1852–?
Jean-François Acloque	?	?
Panayoty[5]	? - 1859	1859–?
V. Lizaire[5]	? - 1860	1860–?
W. Chanlatte[5]	? - September 1860	December 1860–?
R. A. Deslandes[12]	? - July 1862	August 1862–?
P.-N. Valcin[5]	? - 1864	1864–?
T. Chalviré[5]	? - 1870	1870–?
Jeantel Manigat	? - 1870	1870–?
J. Thébaud	? - 1874	1874–?
Hannibal Price	1876	1876
Eugène Margron[13]	? - August 1877	August 1877–?
Hannibal Price[5]	? - 1878	1878–?
Demesvar Delorme[14]	? - 1879	1879–?
Guillaume Manigat[15]	? - October 1880	October 1880–?
François Manigat[16]	April 1881	October 1881–?
Edmond Paul	?	?
Ripert Honorat[17]	? - February 1883	February 1883–?
Osman Piquant[5]	? - August 1884	September 1884–?
Fabius Ducasse[18]	? - October 1885	October 1885–?
Dorvil Théodore[16]	? - June 1887	June 1887–?
Oswald Durand[19]	1888	1888
M. Stewart President of the constitutional assembly	?	1889
Pétion Pierre-André[20]	? - September 1891	September 1892–?
M. Stewart[21]	? - September 1893	December 1893–?
J. M. Grandoit[22]	? - July 1894	December 1894–?
Vilbrun Guillaume Sam[23]	? - July 1895 – 1896	October 1897–?
Camille Saint-Rémy[24]	1898	1898
Henri Prophète[25]	1899	1900
Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave[26]	? - September 1901	September 1901–?
Stephen Archer[27]	? - February 1904	1906–?
G. Desrosiers[28]	1909	1911
St-Amand Blot	? - 1913	1913–?
Denis Saint-Aude	? - 1914	1914–?
Annulysse André	1915	?
J. M. Grandoit[29]	? - 1922	1925
Em. J. Thomas[29]	1925	1925
Edmond Montas[29]	1925	1926
Em. J. Thomas[30]	1926	1927
Charles Bouchereau[31]	1927	1928
Antoine C. Sansaricq[32]	1928	1929
F. Robinson[32]	1929	1929–?
Joseph Jolibois	1930	1931
Joseph Loubeau[28]	1931	?
Denis Saint-Aude President of the constitutional assembly	? - 1932	1933–?
Edg. Pierre-Louis[33]	?	1934
Dumarsais Estimé	1934	1935
Louis S. Zéphirin[34]	1936	1939
Edouard Piou[35]	1939	1940–?
Théophile J. B. Richard	? - 1943	1943–?
Hugues Bourjolly[36]	? - January 1944	January 1944–?
Théophile J. B. Richard	? - 1945	1946–?
Joseph Loubeau[37]	? - 1946	1949
Dumas Michel	1949	1949–?
Adelphin Telson[38]	4 April 1950	1955–?
Salnave C. Zamor[39]	1956	1956–?
Rameau Estimé[40]	? - 1958	1960–?
Luc F. François[41]	? - 1961	1962–?
Rameau Estimé[42]	1962	1963
Jean M. Julme[43]	? - 1963	1964–?
Ulrick Saint-Louis[44]	1971	?
Victor Nevers Constant[45]	? - 1977	1981
Jaurès Levêque[46]	? - 1983	1985–?
No legislature	1986	1987
Émile Jonassaint[47] President of the constitutional assembly	? - March 1987	1988
Jacques Saint-Louis[48]	January 1988	June 1988
No legislature	June 1988	February 1991
Ernst Pedro Casséus[49]	1991	20 August 1991
Pierre Duly Brutus[50]	20 August 1991[51]	1992
Alexandre Médard[52]	15 January 1992	January 1993[53]
Antoine Joseph[54]	January 1993[53]	January 1994
Frantz Robert Mondé[54][52]	13 January 1994	1994
Pierre Duly Brutus[50]	1994	1995
Fritz Robert Saint Paul[55]	8 November 1995	December 1996–?
Kely Bastien[56]	14 January 1997[57]	January 1998[58]
Vasco Thernélan[56]	January 1998[58]	January 1999–?[59]
Sainvoyis Pascal[60]	28 August 2000	2000
Pierre Paul Cotin[61][62]	? – December 2000	28 February 2002
Rudy Hériveaux[63]	28 February 2002	October 2002–?
Yves Cristalin[64]	? – April 2003	January 2004
No legislature	January 2004	May 2006
Pierre Eric Jean-Jacques	May 2006	2009
Levaillant Louis Jeune[65]	January 2009	26 April 2011
Sorel Jacinthe	26 April 2011[66]	January 2012
Jean Tholbert Alèxis	January 2012	15 January 2014
Stevenson Jacques Thimoléon	15 January 2014[67]	11 January 2016
Cholzer Chancy	11 January 2016[68]	10 January 2018
Gary Bodeau[69]	10 January 2018	13 January 2020

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See also

• List of current members of the National Assembly of Haiti

Further reading

• "Haiti". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. 14 November 2006. Retrieved 17 November 2006.
• Schutt-Ainé, Patricia (1994). Haiti: A Basic Reference Book. Miami, Florida: Librairie Au Service de la Culture. p. 166. ISBN 0-9638599-0-0.
• About parliament - Chamber of Deputies, Inter-Parliamentary Union