The term of office of Haiti's ruling President Moise has officially ended on February 7th. However, he is not thinking of stopping to govern - after all, an interim government led state affairs for the first year after the elections. Since the end of his five-year term the opposition calls for his resignation, while Jovonel Moise is of the opinion that he has one more year to rule.
While the parliamentary cliques argue about who is allowed to rule for how long, the situation for many Haitians is increasingly unbearable than before. In addition to the long-standing problems such as poverty, hunger or regular power outages, the problem of organized crime has grown massively. This is (because the state apparatus is mainly used in the interests of this or that ruling group, instead of guaranteeing the physical integrity of the people) to practice kidnapping for ransom.
Because the state, after the provision of basic needs such as food, water and electricity, is no longer even fulfilling it´s function of protecting the people, large protests have developed in the last few days and weeks that have turned into powerful demonstrations and, in the larger cities, too, have developed into street battles with the police. Cynically, the state even uses the criminal organizations against which the protest is directed to fight the demonstrators. Here the connection between the state and lumpenproletarian crime is openly revealed. This also makes it clear to the latter why the individual functionaries in the State machinery have absolutely no interest in changing the circumstances.
