Senate (Haiti)

The Senate (French: Sénat, Haitian Creole: Sena) is the upper house of Haiti's bicameral legislature, the Haitian Parliament. The lower house of the Haitian Parliament is the Chamber of Deputies. The Senate consists of thirty seats, with three members from each of the ten administrative departments. Prior to the creation of the department of Nippes in 2003, there were twenty-seven seats. Senators are elected by popular vote to six-year terms, with one-third elected every two years. There are no term limits for senators; they may be re-elected indefinitely.

Senate Sénat · Sena
Currently Dissolved
National emblem of Haiti
Type
Type	Upper house of the Haitian Parliament
Term limits	No limits
History
Founded	December 1806[1]
Structure
Seats	30
Political groups	Vacant: 30 seats
Length of term	Six years
Elections
Voting system	Two-round system
Last election	2016–17
Next election	Next
Meeting place
Port-au-Prince
Website

After the elections of 2000, twenty-six of the then twenty-seven seats were held by Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas party. The Senate was not in session following the overthrow of Aristide's government in February 2004. An interim government was put in place following the rebellion, and the remaining senators were not recognised during that time. The Senate was re-established and elections were held on 21 April 2006. The next elections were scheduled to occur in 2008, when one-third of the Senate seats was opened.

In 2015, the Senate was reduced to only 10 members and the chamber of deputies was closed because the elections to replace one-third of the senators and all of the deputies in 2013 were delayed indefinitely causing senators and deputies to finish their term in January 2015 without any replacement. This led to a dysfunctional National assembly. In the 2015 parliamentary elections these two-thirds were filled with new elected members, completing the 30 senators.^[2]

In January 2020, the number of lawmakers retaining their Senate seats was again reduced to 10 as President Jovenel Moïse failed to hold elections in time to replace the others, whose terms expired before his assassination.^[3][4] Following the expiration of the terms of these remaining senators on 10 January 2023, Haiti has not elected members of either chamber of its Parliament.^[5]

Latest election

2015 Haitian parliamentary elections

Party		Senators
		1st Round	2nd Round	Total
	Plateforme Vérité (VERITE)	0	3	3
	Konvansyon Inite Demokratik (KID)	0	3	3
	Haitian Tèt Kale Party (PHTK)	0	6	6
	Struggling People's Organization (OPL)	0	1	1
	Fanmi Lavalas (FL)	0	1	1
	Haiti in Action (AAA)	1	0	1
	Pont	0	1	1
	Platfòm Pitit Desalin	0	1	1
	Ligue Dessalinienne (LIDE)	1	0	1
Total		2	12	14
Seats not awarded yet				9
Seats not up in 2015 elections				9
Total seats				30
Sources: , ,

List of Senate presidents

Le Président du Sénat^{[citation needed]}

Name	Took office	Left office	Party
César Télémaque[6]	31 December 1806	February 1807
Jean-Louis Barlatier	March 1807	April 1807
Louis-Auguste Daumec	April 1807	May 1807
Théodat Trichet	June 1807	1807
Guy Joseph Bonnet	1808	4 March 1808
Gabriel David Troy	4 March 1808	April 1808
Jean-Louis Larose	May 1808	June 1808
Pierre Charles Lys	July 1808	August 1808
Philippe Bourjolly-Modé	September 1808	18 November 1808
Louis-Auguste Daumec	18 November 1808	?
Jean-Louis Larose	?	April 1811
Louis Leroux	May 1811	1811
Jean-Auguste Voltaire	1812	1812
Jean-Louis Larose	1812	?
Pierre Charles Lys	1813	1813
Jean-Auguste Voltaire	1813	?
Jean-Louis Larose	1814	1814
Louis Leroux	1814	July 1814
Jean-Louis Larose	August 1814	1814
Jean-Auguste Voltaire	1814	December 1814
Jean-Louis Larose	December 1814	1815
Pierre Charles Lys	1815	1815
Joseph Neptune	1815	January 1816
Casimir Célestin Panayoty	January 1816	1816
Jean-Baptiste Bayard	1816	?
Pierre Simon	1817	August 1817
Jean-Louis Larose	August 1817	?
Hilaire Martin[7]	? – 1820	1820 – ?
Amédé Gayot	1821	?
Noël Viallet[8]	? – October 1821	October 1821–?
Antoine Lerebours[9]	? – October 1822	October 1822–?
Noël Viallet[8]	? – July 1824	February 1825–?
Louis-Auguste Daumec	? – April 1825	April 1825 – ?
Noël Viallet[10]	? – January 1826	April 1826
Pierre-Prosper Rouanez[11]	April 1826	May 1826 – ?
François Sambour[12]	1827	1827 – ?
Fonroë Dubreuil[12]	? – 1828	1828
Jean-François Lespinasse[12]	1828	1828
Louis Gabriel Audigé[12]	1828	1828
François Sambour[12][13]	1828	1829
Jean-François Lespinasse[12]	1829	1830
Antoine Martinez Valdès[12]	1830	1830
Eustache Frémont[12]	1830	1831
Louis Gabriel Audigé[12]	1831	1831 – ?
Joseph Georges[12]	? – 1832	1832
Louis Gabriel Audigé[12]	1832	1832 – ?
Jean Béchet[12]	? – 1833	1833 – ?
Jean-François Lespinasse[14]	? – August 1833	August 1833 – ?
Jean-Baptiste Bayard	?	1834
Joseph Georges	June 1834	July 1834
Noël Viallet	July 1834	1835
Charles-Théodore Cupidon[15]	1835	June 1835
Pierre André	July 1835	?
Louis D. Gilles	1836	August 1836
Eustache Frémont	September 1836	October 1836
Jean-Pierre Oriol	November 1836	?
Jose Joachim Del Monte	1837	1837
Beaubrun Ardouin	1837	?
Amédé Gayot	1838	1838
Charles Bazelais	1838	1838
Beaubrun Ardouin[16]	1838	1839
David Troy	? – March 1846	March 1846 – ?
Pierre Louis Bouzi[7]	? – 1848	1848 – ?
André Jean Simon[17]	? – September 1849	September 1849–?
Larouchel du Bas-de-Sainte-Anne[18]	?	?
Désormes Ls. Lafontant[7]	? – 1852	1852 – ?
Hilaire-Jean Pierre[7]	? – 1859	1859 – ?
Pierre-Louis Cariès[7]	? – 1860	1860 – ?
François Lacruz[19]	? – September 1860	September 1860 – ?
José Ignacio Mendoza[7]	? – December 1860	December 1860 – ?
Saladin Lamour[20]	? – August 1862	August 1862 – ?
Antoine Laforest[7]	? – 1864	1864 – ?
Michel Dupont[7]	? – 1870	7 June 1874
Dasny Labonté	1875	?
Louis Audain	1876	?
Aristide Flambert[21]	1877	?
François Hippolyte	1878	July 1878
Darius Denis	July 1878	1878
Brunis Maignan[7]	September 1878	1878 – ?
Morin Montasse	1879	?
Innocent Michel-Pierre[22]	1880	?
Morin Montasse[7][23]	? – October 1881	1884
Brunis Maignan[24]	1885	1888
Néré Numa	1889	?
Massillon A. Aubry	1890	?
Charles Archin[25]	1891	1891
Dulciné Jean-Louis	1891	?
Brunis Maignan[26]	1892	December 1893 – ?
Alexis Dérac[27]	? – August 1894	September 1894 – ?
Pierre-Antoine Stewart[28]	1895	1896
Cadestin Robert[29]	? – August 1897	August 1897 – ?
Vaillant Guillaume[30][31]	1898	1900
Guillaume[32]	? – 1901	1901 – ?
Pétion Pierre-André[33]	? – February 1904	September 1904 – ?
T. A. Dupiton	? – 1906	1907 – ?
François Paulinus Paulin[32]	1909	1911
Joseph Davilmar Théodore	1911	1912
Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave	1913	1914 – ?
Stephen Archer	1915	?
Paul Laraque	1916	1916
Abolished	1916	1918
Antoine Dubost	1918	1918 – ?
Stephen Archer	? – 1919	1922
Fouchard Martineau[32][34]	? – 1931	1934 – ?
Louis S. Zéphirin[35]	1935	1940 – ?
Alfred Nemours Auguste[36]	1943	1946
Jean Bélizaire[37]	1946	1949 – ?
Charles Fombrun[38]	? – 1951	1955 – ?
Charles Fombrun	9 April 1956	7 February 1957
Emile Saint-Lot	1957	1957
Hugues Bourjolly[39]	1957	1958 – ?
Antoine Marthold[40]	1959	1961[41]
Abolished	1961[41]	January 1988
Louis J. Noisin[42]	January 1988	June 1988
No legislature	June 1988	February 1991[43]
Endrice Raymond[44]	1991	1991	FNCD
Déjean Bélizaire[45]	? - August 1991	31 January 1993	MNP 28
Firmin Jean-Louis[46] and Thomas Eddy Dupiton	31 January 1993	4 February 1994	FNCD
Bernard Sansaricq	4 February 1994	October 1994
Firmin Jean-Louis[46]	October 1994	13 October 1995	FNCD
Edgard Leblanc Fils	13 October 1995[47]	March 2000 – ?	OPL
Yvon Neptune[48]	28 August 2000	14 March 2002	Fanmi Lavalas
Fourel Célestin[49]	27 March 2002	29 August 2004	Fanmi Lavalas
Yvon Feuillé	29 August 2004	8 September 2004
No legislature	September 2004	May 2006
Joseph Lambert	11 May 2006	2006	Lespwa
Kely Bastien	January 2008	28 April 2011	Lespwa
Jean Rodolphe Joazile	28 April 2011[50]	9 January 2012	PONT
Simon Dieuseul Desras	9 January 2012	12 January 2015	Lavni
Riché Andris	12 January 2015	14 January 2016	Alternative
Jocelerme Privert	14 January 2016	14 February 2016	INITE
Ronald Larêche	14 February 2016	13 January 2017	VÉRITÉ
Youri Latortue	13 January 2017	9 January 2018	AAA
Joseph Lambert	9 January 2018	17 January 2019	KONA
Carl Murat Cantave	17 January 2019	14 January 2020	KID
Pierre François Sildor	14 January 2020	12 January 2021	PHTK
Joseph Lambert	12 January 2021	11 January 2022	KONA
Joseph Lambert	11 January 2022	10 January 2023	KONA

See also

• List of current members of the Parliament of Haiti
• List of members of the Senate (Haiti)

Notes

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Further reading

 This article incorporates public domain material from The World Factbook. CIA.

• "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. 167. ISBN 0-9638599-0-0.
• About parliament – Senate, Inter-Parliamentary Union