The publication of the final results of the first round of presidential Haiti will be held on February 2, announced Friday the Haitian Provisional Electoral Council (CEP), indicating that the second round would take place March 20.
"The final results of the second round of elections will be announced April 16," we read in the electoral calendar.
In detail, the electoral timetable is as follows: publication of final results of the first round will be held Feb. 2, then the election of 17 February to 18 March.The second ballot will be held March 20, preliminary results of the second round will be announced March 31 and finally, the final results of the second round will be announced April 16.
Since the first round of presidential elections on 28 November, the country is plunged into a political crisis linked to qualification for the second round, alongside the former first lady Mirlande Manigat, Jude Celestin, the government candidate, according to Preliminary results released in early December by the POC.
These results have been denounced by supporters of the candidate who came in third place, Michael Martelly.They were also challenged by an audit of the votes of the Organization of American States (OAS), which suggested a duel between Mr. and Mrs. Manigat Martelly the second round.
Close to the outgoing president Rene Preval who was appointed to succeed him, Jude Celestin is accused of fraud by his opponents.
To break the deadlock, the party of Mr.Celestine Wednesday took the decision to remove him from the ballot, but the candidate has not indicated what his intentions were.
President Préval, who was originally scheduled to leave power on February 7, has already said he plans to stay in office until the electoral process to succeed.
"We need things to be clarified before the 7", Wednesday urged the Secretary General of the OAS, Albert Ramdin. "We need to know what will happen because the situation is too confusing," he told reporters before a meeting of the organization in Washington.
