Presidential In Haiti: A Ballot Between Hope And Uncertainty

Sunday 20 November, Haiti organizes the first round of the presidential and legislative elections. Initially, the presidential election was held in October 2015, but was canceled because of massive fraud. If twenty-seven candidates are officially nominated, only a handful actually campaigned for this election whose organization began there are already more than 20 months.


It was in March 2015 that Michel Martelly has published the electoral decree defining the modalities of organizing the presidential elections. The first round on 25 October 2015, had gone smoothly, but the results published the following month had been widely disputed .

Jude Celestin refused to participate in the second round that opposed the government candidate Jovenel Moses. Because of "  massive fraud  ", the authorities finally decided to cancel the election. Michel Martelly has left the presidency in February without transmitting power to an elected successor and today Haiti is led by an interim president, Jocelerme Privert.

An uncertain election

The reorganization of the first round of presidential elections was planned for 9 October, but the devastating hurricane Matthew caused another postponement of the vote. Yesterday afternoon, the election observer John Marc Armand Kingtosh the National Human Rights Network (RNDDH) has not shown reassuring on the good conduct of the election. For him, the organizing elections unsatisfactory. "  What are the authorities? For a month, they knew that tomorrow there would be elections, there are road problems, they would need to voting centers. I think this is serious  , "he says.

Today, all hope that no major incidents, but the spirits are more concerned about the possible tensions that will certainly cause the results were announced in early December, as they are 4 candidates pretend to the prevail from that first round.