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Caribbean & Central America - April 2016 (ISSN 1741-4458)
HAITI: An April vote ‘unlikely’
It is looking increasingly unlikely that the presidential and partial legislative election run-offs, suspended last year, will take place on 24 April. This was the date set by the 5 February accord inked by former president Michel Martelly (2011-2016) and the heads of congress ahead of Martelly’s departure on 7 February [RC-16-02]. There has been progress since Jocelerme Privert took up the interim presidency on 14 February for a 120-day term: Enex Jean-Charles was installed as prime minister on 28 March and the new nine-member provisional electoral court (CEP), two days later. Yet, the new CEP head, Léopold Berlanger, suggested that the run-offs were unlikely to take place on 24 April. A major bone of contention which will impact the date is whether to set up a verification commission to address the fraud allegations marring the presidential first round (which produced a run-off between Jovenel Moïse of Martelly’s Parti Haïtien Têt Kalé [PHTK] party and Jude Célestin of the opposition Ligue Alternative Pour le Progrés et l’Emancipation Haïtienne [Lapeh] party).
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