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Weekly Report - 19 December 2013 (WR-13-50)
HAITI: One step closer to long-awaited elections
“A significant milestone for the organization of inclusive, transparent and democratic elections”. This was the response by Sandra Honoré, the head of the United Nations stabilisation mission in Haiti (Minustah) and the Special Representative for the Secretary-General in Haiti, to a new electoral law promulgated by President Michel Martelly last week. The law is considered essential to the staging of long-overdue elections to fill a third of the 30-member senate (whose seats expired in May 2012) and dozens of local government posts. Its approval, which comes amid growing signs of domestic instability, would appear to have averted a crisis…for now.
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