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Weekly Report - 07 January 2016 (WR-16-01)

HAITI: Elections postponed as political crisis intensifies

Six days before the 27 December presidential second-round run-off 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), the provisional electoral council (CEP) announced it was cancelling the vote. This was in response to the growing allegations that massive fraud took place during the 25 October presidential first round [WR-15-49] as well as, more recently, a corruption scandal involving the CEP itself. While the CEP has since set the date of 24 January for the second-round presidential run-off, ahead of the constitutionally mandated presidential handover of power on 7 February, the release of a report by a special panel established by President Martelly at the end of last year to evaluate the first round vote has only served to exacerbate the crisis.

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