1. Given the deforestation, how do you plan to increase Haiti’s agricultural output, particularly in the production of food for local consumption?
2. If elected, what do you plan to do about the 1.5 million homeless people in Port-au-Prince?
3. Can you outline what your administration will to do to protect the rights of children, orphans, and restavèks?
4. Haiti consumes what it does not produce, and produces what it does not consume. How do you propose to change this paradigm?
5. In 1950, 85% of Haitian farmers owned their land. Today, this number has declined to less than 60%. What will you do to prevent land ownership from becoming ever more concentrated in fewer hands?
6. How will you ensure that dual citizenship is established by the end of your term?
7. Since Hometown Associations in the Diaspora make a tangible difference back home, will your administration meet with the Diaspora Hometown Associations and can you give us details about the structure you will create to assist these associations?
8. The constitution calls for frequent and costly elections every two years for members of the legislature, will you reform this and will you reform any other aspect of the Constitution?
9. A Permanent Electoral Council has not been established as called for by the Constitution. Can you give a timetable for the steps that you will take to establish the Permanent Electoral Council?
10. There is pressure by the international community for Haiti’s government to subsidize existing private schools rather than build its own public school system. Will the people of Haiti not be better off with its own public school system?
11. In Haiti there are countless NGO’s working in isolation and duplicating each other’s efforts. How do you propose to regulate and coordinate NGO activity and hold them accountable for the mission for which they have received funds?
12. To what extent will you tax imported rice and curtail the unrestricted access to the Haitian market of international partners who dump goods into the country, destroying local production.
13. What will be your administration’s minimum wage, and what mechanism will you put in place to safeguard workers’ rights?
14. Besides tourism, agriculture, and assembly, are there other industries you find Haiti well suited for?
15. Which programs by the previous administration will you continue and which will you abandon?