- Latest election
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- References
{{Infobox legislature
| background_color = #22427B
| name = Senate
| native_name = Sénat
| legislature = 50th Haitian legislature
| coa_pic = Coat of arms of Haiti.svg
| coa_res =
| coa_alt =
| coa_caption = National seal of Haiti
| logo_pic =
| logo_res =
| logo_alt =
| logo_caption =
| house_type = Upper house
| body = National Assembly of Haiti|National Assembly
| term_limits = No limits
| leader1_type = President
| leader1 = Joseph Lambert
| new_session = 14 January 2016
| members = 30
| structure1 = Haiti Senate.svg
| structure1_res = 250px
| political_groups1 = {{legend|#228B22|Unity: 1 seat}} {{legend|#FF0000|KONA: 1 seat}} {{legend|#FF7F00|OPL: 1 seat}} {{legend|#3BA94A|Verite: 3 seats}} {{legend|#BB3D3E|KID: 3 seats}} {{legend|#EB1A22|Pitit Desalin: 1 seat}} {{legend|#EB8100|LIDE: 1 seat}} {{legend|#008080|Pont: 1 seat}} {{legend|#0047AB|Fanmi Lavalas: 1 seat}} {{legend|#FC008A|PHTK: 6 seats}} {{legend|#002387|AAA: 1 seat}} {{legend|#C0C0C0|Lide: 1 seat}} {{legend|#C0C0C0|Vacant: 9 seats}}
| term_length = Six years
| voting_system1 = Absolute majority
| last_election1 = 2016–17
| next_election1 = 2019
| meeting_place = Port-au-Prince
| website =
}}{{Politics of Haiti}}The Senate ({{lang-fr|Sénat}}) is the upper house of Haiti's bicameral legislature, the National Assembly. The lower house of the National Assembly 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. 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 to be filled with new elected members, completing the 30 senators.[1] Latest electionHaitian parliamentary elections, 2015| Party | Senators | | 1st Round | 2nd Round | Total |
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| Truth (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 | | Platfom 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| Name | Took office | Left office | Party | | César Télémaque | 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 | ? | | Amédé Gayot | 1821 | ? | | Jean-François Lespinasse | 1828 | ? | | Jean-Baptiste Bayard | ? | 1834 | | Joseph Georges | June 1834 | July 1834 | | Noël Vialet | July 1834 | 1835 | | Charles T. Cupidon | 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 | 1838 | 1839 | | Michel Dupont | ? | 7 June 1874 | | Dasny Labonté | 1875 | ? | | Louis Audain | 1876 | ? | | Aristide Flambert | 1877 | ? | | François Hippolyte | 1878 | July 1878 | | Darius Denis | July 1878 | 1879 | | Morin Montasse | 1879 | ? | | Innocent Michel-Pierre | 1880 | ? | | Morin Montasse | 1883 | 1884 | | Brunis Maignan | 1885 | 1888 | | Néré Numa | 1889 | ? | | Dr. Massillon A. Aubry | 1890 | ? | | Charles Archin | 1891 | 1891 | | Dulciné Jean-Louis | 1891 | ? | | Brunis Maignan | 1892 | 1893 | | Alexis Dérac | 1894 | ? | | Pierre-Antoine Stewart | 1895 | 1896 | | Cadestin Robert | 1897 | ? | | Vaillant Guillaume | 1898 | 1899 | | Guillaume[2] | ? - 1901 | 1901 - ? | | Pétion Pierre-André | ? - 1904 | 1904 - ? | | T. A. Dupiton | ? - 1906 | 1907 - ? | | François Paulinus Paulin[3] | 1909 | 1911 | | Davilmar Theodore | 1911 | 1912 | | Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave | 1913 | 1914 - ? | | Stephen Archer | 1915 | ? | | Paul Laraque | 1916 | 1916 | | Abolished | 1916 | 1918 | | Fouchard Martineau[4][5] | ? - 1931 | 1934 - ? | | Louis S. Zéphirin[6] | 1935 | 1940 - ? | | Alfred Nemours Auguste[7] | 1943 | 1946 | | Jean Bélizaire[8] | 1946 | 1949 - ? | | Charles Fombrun[9] | ? - 1951 | 1955 - ? | | Charles Fombrun | 9 April 1956 | 7 February 1957 | | Emile Saint-Lot | 1957 | 1957 | | Hugues Bourjolly[10] | 1957 | 1958 - ? | | Antoine Marthold[11] | 1959 | 1961[12] | | Abolished | 1961[13] | January 1988 | | Louis J. Noisin | January 1988 | June 1988 | | No legislature | June 1988 | February 1991[14] | | Déjean Belizaire[15] | ? - December 1991 | 31 January 1993 | MNP 28 | | Firmin Jean-Louis[16] and Thomas Eddy Dupiton | 31 January 1993 | 4 February 1994 | FNCD | | Bernard Sansaricq | 4 February 1994 | October 1994 | | Firmin Jean-Louis[17] | October 1994 | 13 October 1995 | FNCD | | Edgard Leblanc[18] | 13 October 1995 | 2000 | OPL | | Yvon Neptune | 28 August 2000 | 14 March 2002 | Fanmi Lavalas | | Fourel Célestin | 27 March 2002 | August 2003 | Fanmi Lavalas | | Yvon Feuillé | ? | January 2004 | | No legislature | January 2004 | May 2006 | | Joseph Lambert | 11 May 2006 | 2006 | Lespwa | | Kely Bastien | January 2008 | 2011 | Lespwa | | Jean Rodolphe Joazile | 24 January 2011 | 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 | Incumbent | KID |
See also - List of current members of the National Assembly of Haiti
References 1. ^Parlement Haitien: Le Sénat de la République
2. ^https://books.google.com/books?id=OkkeAAAAMAAJ
3. ^https://books.google.com/books?id=OkkeAAAAMAAJ
4. ^https://books.google.com/books?id=OkkeAAAAMAAJ
5. ^http://ciat.bach.anaphore.org/file/misc/bulletindesloise10hait.pdf
6. ^http://ciat.bach.anaphore.org/file/misc/719_19400315.pdf
7. ^http://ciat.bach.anaphore.org/file/misc/237_19450210.pdf
8. ^http://ciat.bach.anaphore.org/file/misc/049_19470914.pdf
9. ^http://ciat.bach.anaphore.org/file/misc/341_19550614.pdf
10. ^http://ciat.bach.anaphore.org/file/misc/056_19580917.pdf
11. ^http://ciat.bach.anaphore.org/file/misc/108_19591112.pdf
12. ^https://books.google.com/books?id=-zAKAQAAIAAJ
13. ^https://books.google.com/books?id=-zAKAQAAIAAJ
14. ^http://archive.ipu.org/parline/reports/2138_arc.htm
15. ^http://ciat.bach.anaphore.org/file/misc/264_19911212.pdf
16. ^https://books.google.com/books?id=ex-McfiTKWgC
17. ^https://books.google.com/books?id=ex-McfiTKWgC
18. ^http://www.haiti.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/loi_modernisation.pdf
{{CIA World Factbook}}- {{cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ha.html |title=Haiti |work=The World Factbook |publisher=Central Intelligence Agency |date=2006-11-14 |accessdate=2006-11-17 }}
- {{cite book | last = Schutt-Ainé | first = Patricia | title = Haiti: A Basic Reference Book | publisher = Librairie Au Service de la Culture | date = 1994 | location = Miami, Florida | isbn = 0-9638599-0-0 | page = 167 }}
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