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The Provisional Electoral Council (French: Conseil Électoral Provisoire, French pronunciation: [kɔ̃sɛj əlɛktɔʁal pʁɔvizwaʁ], CEP; Haitian Creole: Konsèy Elektoral Pwovizwa) is the electoral commission of Haiti. The CEP is responsible for presidential elections and parliamentary elections, and is Haiti's main and only legal election ...
Presidential elections were held in Haiti on 20 November 2016 after having been postponed several times. [1] The elections were overseen by the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP), [2] and were held using the two-round system, with a second round scheduled for 29 January 2017 if no candidate received an absolute majority of the votes in the first round (50% plus one vote).
A runoff was initially scheduled for 27 December 2015, [22] but on 22 December the Conseil Electoral Provisoire announced that the runoff was being postponed indefinitely. [3] On 5 April 2016, the CEP announced that a rerun of the presidential election was to take place on 9 October 2016.
Haiti's transitional presidential council - a separate body which has been acting as the government since it was installed in April - established the electoral council in a meeting.
In January 2015, after a series of disputed, unconstitutional, electoral commissions named by President Martelly were rejected by the Parliament, a Provisional Electoral Council was created to plan the presidential and parliamentary elections later in 2015. [5] [6]
The politics of Haiti takes place in the framework of a unitary semi-presidential republic, where the president is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government. The politics of Haiti are considered historically unstable due to various coups d'état , regime changes, military juntas and internal conflicts.
The former head of Haiti’s provisional electoral council, Pierre-Louis Opont, is the latest victim of the country’s kidnapping scourge, his abduction occurring less than 10 days after his wife ...
The Chamber of Deputies (French: Chambre des députés; Haitian Creole: Chanm Depite) is the lower house of Haiti's bicameral legislature, the Haitian Parliament. The upper house of the Haitian Parliament is the Senate of Haiti. The Chamber has 119 members (previously 99) who are elected by popular vote to four-year terms.