Chamber of Deputies (Haiti)


The Chamber of Deputies 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 who are elected by popular vote to four-year terms. There are no term limits for Deputies; they may be re-elected indefinitely.
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. 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.
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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 has not posted the results. The next Chamber elections were scheduled for 2010. There were new parliamentary elections in 2015–16.

Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies

Le Président de la Chambre / Prezidan Chanm Depite
NameTook officeLeft officeParty
Pierre André? - 18171817–?
N.-D. Lafargue? - 1819July 1820–?
Pierre André? - 18201820–?
Doizé Pouponneau? - November 1821November 1821–?
Caminero? - October 18221825–?
Beaubrun Ardouin? - January 1826January 1826–?
Franco Travieso? - 18261826–?
P. Muzaine? - 18261826–?
M. Duval? - 18271827
Jean Benis18271827
Jacques Depa18271827–?
M. Druilhet? - 18281828
Doizé Pouponneau18281828
D. Villedautant18281829–?
E. Legros? - 18301830
Doizé Pouponneau18301830–?
A. Massez? - 18311831–?
J. S. Milscent? - 18321832
G. Malval18321832–?
J. S. Milscent? - September 1833June 1835–?
Phanor Dupin? - October 1839November 1839–?
H.-In. Joseph? - 18481848–?
Brutus de Jean-Simon? - September 1849September 1849–?
Brutus de Jean-Simon? - 18521852–?
Jean-François Acloque??
Panayoty? - 18591859–?
V. Lizaire? - 18601860–?
W. Chanlatte? - September 1860December 1860–?
R. A. Deslandes? - July 1862August 1862–?
P.-N. Valcin? - 18641864–?
T. Chalviré? - 18701870–?
Jeantel Manigat? - 18701870–?
J. Thébaud? - 18741874–?
Hannibal Price18761876
Eugène Margron? - August 1877August 1877–?
Hannibal Price? - 18781878–?
Demesvar Delorme? - 18791879–?
Guillaume Manigat? - October 1880October 1880–?
François ManigatApril 1881October 1881–?
Edmond Paul??
Ripert Honorat? - February 1883February 1883–?
Osman Piquant? - August 1884September 1884–?
Fabius Ducasse? - October 1885October 1885–?
Germain? - 18861886 – ?
Dorvil Théodore? - June 1887June 1887–?
Oswald Durand18881888
M. Stewart
President of the constitutional assembly		?1889
Pétion Pierre-André? - September 1891September 1892–?
M. Stewart? - September 1893December 1893–?
J. M. Grandoit? - July 1894December 1894–?
Vilbrun Guillaume Sam? - July 1895 – 1896October 1897–?
Camille Saint-Rémy18981898
Henri Prophète18991900
Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave? - September 1901September 1901–?
Stephen Archer? - 19031906–?
G. Desrosiers19081911
A. Amisia? - 19121912–?
St-Amand Blot? - 19131913–?
Denis Saint-Aude? - 19141914–?
Annulysse André1915?
J. M. Grandoit? - 19221925
Em. J. Thomas19251925
Edmond Montas19251926
Em. J. Thomas19261927
Charles Bouchereau19271928
Antoine C. Sansaricq19281929
F. Robinson19291929–?
Joseph Jolibois19301932
Joseph Loubeau1932?
Denis Saint-Aude
President of the constitutional assembly		? - 19321933–?
Edg. Pierre-Louis?1934
Dumarsais Estimé19341935
Louis S. Zéphirin19361939
Edouard Piou19391940–?
Théophile B. Richard?–19411941–?
Théophile J. B. Richard?–19431943–?
Hugues Bourjolly? - January 1944January 1944–?
Théophile J. B. Richard? - 19451946–?
Joseph Loubeau? - 19461949
Dumas Michel19491949–?
Adelphin Telson4 April 19501955–?
Salnave C. Zamor19561956–?
Rameau Estimé? - 19581960–?
Luc F. François? - 19611962–?
Rameau Estimé19621963
Jean M. Julme? - 19631964–?
Ulrick Saint-Louis1971?
Victor Nevers Constant? - 19771981
Jaurès Levêque? - 19831985–?
No legislature19861987
Émile Jonassaint
President of the constitutional assembly		? - March 19871988
Jacques Saint-LouisJanuary 1988June 1988
No legislatureJune 1988February 1991
Ernst Pedro Casséus199120 August 1991
Pierre Duly Brutus20 August 19911992
Alexandre Médard15 January 1992January 1993
Antoine JosephJanuary 1993January 1994
Frantz Robert Mondé13 January 19941994
Pierre Duly Brutus19941995
Fritz Robert Saint Paul8 November 1995December 1996–?
Kely Bastien14 January 1997January 1998
Vasco ThernélanJanuary 1998January 1999–?
Sainvoyis Pascal28 August 20002000
Pierre Paul Cotin? – December 200028 February 2002
Rudy Hériveaux28 February 2002January 2003
Yves Cristalin? – April 2003January 2004
No legislatureJanuary 2004May 2006
Pierre Eric Jean-JacquesMay 2006January 2009
Levaillant Louis JeuneJanuary 200926 April 2011
Sorel Jacinthe26 April 2011January 2012
Levaillant Louis JeuneJanuary 2012January 2013
Jean Tholbert AlèxisJanuary 201315 January 2014
Stevenson Jacques Thimoléon15 January 201411 January 2016
Cholzer Chancy11 January 201610 January 2018
Gary Bodeau10 January 201813 January 2020
Vacant13 January 2020Present