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Thousands of Haitians gathered again in the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, on Sunday to protest against President Jovenel Moïse.
The protests were mostly peaceful, although in some places there were clashes between protesters and police who fired tear gas and rubber-coated bullets.
President Moïse is accused of illegally extending his mandate for one year, until February 2022, and the protesters chanted “Down with the dictatorship!” During the protests on Sunday.
Recently, the president claimed that a coup d’état and an assassination attempt against him had been averted and, among other things, a judge was arrested in the Supreme Court.
Moïse won an election in 2015, which was overturned for cheating. He was then elected president a year later, in 2016. Parliamentary and local elections would have been held in 2018, but have been postponed for the future. In this political vacuum, Moïse has argued that he should stay in power for another year.
The politically unstable situation in Haiti has tragic claims to turn to. Since 1988, the country has been involved in four military and coups, as well as a popular uprising when Jean-Claude Duvalier, known as Baby Doc, was overthrown in 1986.
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