This is what Nicole Siméon, spokesperson for the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP), announced today during its weekly press conference. The 27 presidential candidates will be able to validate go to the premises of the electoral body to validate this model from tomorrow Wednesday June 29, she said. Regarding the elections for the renewal of a third of the senate, the spokesperson said that thirty (30) political parties have completed the registration formalities.
As part of the electoral calendar published by the CEP, the advisers had a working meeting this afternoon with representatives of electoral observation organizations in order to discuss the deployment of observers in the national territory and citizen mobilization. According to the CEP spokesperson, similar meetings are planned with civil society organizations, political parties, the religious sector, etc.
Nicole Siméon took the opportunity to ask Haitian citizens to go to the ONI (Office National d’Identification) office closest to their home to collect their national identification card by July 12 at the latest, the date on which the voters list will be closed. .
In addition to the presidential election, the Electoral Council chaired by Léopold Berlanger will also organize the second round of partial legislative elections as well as the two rounds for the renewal of a third of the senate. Regarding the seats of the deputies pinned by the report of the Independent Commission for Electoral Evaluation and Verification (CIEVE), it is an extremely burning issue on which the electoral advisers have difficulty in deciding while seven ( 7) Haitian organizations involved in the observation of the 2015 elections asked, in a letter addressed to the members of the CEP on June 27, to disqualify certain presidential candidates taking into account the recommendations made by the CIEVE.
Extract from the weekly press conference of the CEP spokesperson
