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Caribbean & Central America - December 2015 (ISSN 1741-4458)
HAITI: Heading towards another crisis?
Initial optimism that the 25 October elections for the first presidential round, second round of legislative elections, and 140 mayoral seats were an improvement on the 9 August first round of legislative elections – the first test for the provisional electoral council (CEP) - has proven short-lived. Since then, widespread allegations of fraud have emerged, accompanied by protests against CEP’s handling of the electoral process. The final results from the presidential first round – which confirmed a run-off scheduled for 27 December between Jovenel Moïse, of President Michel Martelly’s Parti Haïtien Têt Kalé (PHTK) and Jude Célestin, of the Ligue Alternative pour le Progrès et l’Emancipation Haïtienne (Lapeh) - have met with widespread rejection, including from Célestin and seven other presidential candidates.
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