Haiti schedules first election in a decade for December
The vote follows years of delays over gang violence and would include constitutional changes and local representatives, officials said.
- Haiti's electoral council announced on Monday the first national election schedule in a decade, setting a December 13 presidential and legislative vote pending an "acceptable security environment."
- This announcement follows prolonged political paralysis since President Jovenel Moise's 2021 assassination, with previous electoral attempts postponed as armed gangs seized control of Port-au-Prince.
- Voter registration opened July 20 with over 300 approved political parties, though the process faces hurdles as nearly 1.5 million Haitians remain displaced amid severe food insecurity.
- The Eminent Persons Group of the Caribbean Community urged international contributors to the Gang Suppression Force to deploy personnel "as early as possible" before the December round.
- GSF reinforcements are expected in the coming weeks to reach 5,500 personnel, a deployment intended to satisfy the "acceptable security environment" requirement for voting to proceed.
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Haitians to vote on December 13 in first election in 10 years
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) says Haitians will vote in the first round of presidential and legislative elections on December 13 this year. The elections will be the first since 2016, when Haitians elected Jovenel Moïse as the country’s president. Moïse was later assassinated on July 7, 2021, by armed men, including foreign mercenaries, at his private residence overlooking the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Authoritățile electorale din Haiti au anunțat legeri presidentiale și legislative la sfârşitul acestui an, a căror to organize this condition of “establishing an acceptable security atmosphere”, or sarcină ilă în această țară caribă devastată de violence ale unor infractional ganguri, relatează AFP.
Haiti schedules first elections in a decade for December
Haiti's electoral council just scheduled the first elections in a decade for December with a runoff in February. Earlier plans to hold the vote in August with a December runoff were postponed over security concerns.
Chaotic Haiti: Presidential Election to be Held This December for the First Time in 10 Years. The presidency is currently vacant following the assassination of the president, and with gangs seizing control of the country, the holding of the election remains uncertain. A presidential election will be held for the first time in 10 years in Haiti, a Caribbean island nation that has fallen into lawlessness as the incumbent president was assassinated…
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