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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 ...
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.
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).
CARICOM said it would send an assessment team to evaluate electoral needs by March 31 of this year to support planning and establishment of the relevant institutions. Henry, who came to power ...
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 ...
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]
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on a visit to Haiti on Thursday that he hoped to see an electoral council established soon to organize elections in the Caribbean country next year.