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Caribbean & Central America - June 2016 (ISSN 1741-4458)
HAITI: CEP ends speculation
Haiti’s provisional electoral council (CEP) has revealed yet another timeframe for the country’s long overdue elections. Crucially it has incorporated the recommendations of a report presented on 30 May by the verification commission (Cieve), set up by interim president Jocelerme Privert to evaluate the 25 October 2015 first-round presidential election results in the wake of fraud allegations. In line with Cieve’s report, the CEP has scrapped the presidential first round and with it the run-off between Jovenel Moïse of former President Michel Martelly (2011-2016)’s Parti Haïtien Têt Kalé (PHTK) – who the opposition maintains was the chief beneficiary of the fraud – and Jude Célestin of the opposition Ligue Alternative Pour le Progrés et l’Emancipation Haïtienne (Lapeh) party. Instead it has set 9 October and 8 January 2017 as the dates for the new presidential first and second rounds respectively,
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