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Weekly Report - 24 November 2016 (WR-16-46)
HAITI: Elections hailed as improvement
The Haitian government, provisional electoral council (CEP), local civil-society groups and the international community are all hailing the delayed presidential and legislative elections which took place on 20 November as a success of sorts. The election results are unlikely to be available within the week and turnout for the vote, in which 6.2m people were registered to take part, was reportedly “low”. Yet the fact that the credibility of the process appears an improvement is a step forward. The vote was the latest attempt to stage the elections originally scheduled for last year, after the devastation wreaked by Hurricane ‘Matthew’ on 4 October led the CEP to postpone plans to restage the 9 October presidential election [WR-16-40]. This in turn came after the CEP cancelled the 25 October 2015 first-round vote results amid widespread fraud allegations, leaving the country with an interim government led by Jocelerme Privert since February.
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