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Weekly Report - 08 September 2016 (WR-16-35)

HAITI: Campaigns underway

The president of Haiti’s provisional electoral council (CEP), Léopold Berlanger, has announced the official start of the campaign period for the 9 October delayed presidential and partial legislative elections. Berlanger’s announcement is in line with the new electoral calendar, unveiled by the CEP in June after it controversially annulled the October 2015 presidential first-round vote amid widespread allegations of fraud. It came a week after the CEP finally released details of its US$55m electoral budget (see sidebar), putting paid to doubts which had emerged following the decision by the US to pull electoral financial assistance for Haiti in response to the CEP’s decision to scrap the first round [WR-16-30].

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