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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 ...
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).
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 United States has meanwhile pledged $200 million in support, Canada around $60 million and France close to $4 million. The U.N. spokesman said less than $11 million has so far been deposited ...
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.
Plateforme Vérité (English: Truth Platform) was a Haitian political party co-founded by former president René Préval. [1] After the 2015-16 legislative elections, Vérité emerged as the second largest party behind only the PHTK, [2] winning 17 seats in the Chamber of Deputies [3] and three in the Senate.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Haiti is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have reached Haiti in March 2020. The index case was in Port-au-Prince. As of 14 September 2021, there are 21,178 total confirmed cases, 1,184 ...