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Collective of Elected Mayors wants run-off election on January 17, 2016
Who said that Haitians are unable to organize themselves under a common cause? This will always happen specially when their individual interests are at risk. That is the case with the newly created political structure called Collective of Elected Mayors. Headed by Jean Gabriel Fortune, the group that has been elected under this recent dubious election in Haiti is comprised of more than one hundred people. They also appear eager to enter in function and have proposed a date already for the run-off presidential election which is January 17, 2016, hoping that the next president will still be installed on February 7, 2016. This new Collective of Elected Mayors doesn't think the actual commission of evaluation should destabilize the current situation and make big waves with their findings.
Only the last election will be evaluated by the Commission
For those looking for a complete evaluation of past two election organized by the CEP, with a possibility to declare then null and void I want to tell you that the Evaluation Commission doesn't see it this way. You can look at the commission as a group here to do a paint job. Let's keep the dirt on the wall and give it a nice paint job like we recently did in Jalousie slum.
Despite huge cases of fraud recorded on August 9 and October 25, the new Commission of Evaluation has decided only to look at irregularities in the October 25 election. Members of the Commission made that clear to the press on December 28, 2015 that its mission is to look only at the first round of the Presidential election that took place on October 25
The G8 will not meet the Commission of Evaluation
As part of its mission to meet all the principal actors in the current crisis, the newly formed commission had great hope to meet the G8. A meeting was scheduled for last sunday (December 27 at Hotel Kinam for this big get together. However, the G8 did not see it that way or, in another way, did not want to provide legitimacy to the Commission of evaluation by actually meeting with them. Consequently, the G8 declined the invitation to meet the Commission.
On behalf of the G8, Jean Henry Ceant issued a letter to the Commission of evaluation, explaining their position as follows:
Jude Celestin will not go to Run-off election with Jovenel, Jean Hector Anacacis
If you thought for a second that there was a chance for the current electoral crisis to come to an end, you were probably dreaming. Jean Hector Anacacis who is the person in charge of Lapeh said this morning that there is no way Jude Celestin will go to a run-off election with the candidate of PHTK, Jovenel Moise. He insists that the only satisfactory decision for the current Commission of evaluation is to exclude Jovenel. According to former Senator Anacacis, Michel Martelly has time to avoid a KO and remove his candidate from the process because of all the frauds conducted on behalf of the PHTK candidate.
Jude Celestin caught between Moise Jean charles, G8 and the New Commission
The candidate for Lapeh, Jude Celestin, has been playing an unwinnable game since the last election in Haiti. Now it seems like regardless of all of his efforts, dedication and commitment he is going to lose the game very badly. Jude Celestin who has been qualified to participate in a run-off election with the Jovenel Moise, the candidate of PHTK got himself involved with the G8 because he thought that would have been his only chance to win in a run-off election with the well financed,well supported candidate of the executive, Jovenel Moise.
UN wants run-off election rescheduled quickly in Haiti
On Wednesday, December 23, 2015, the Security Council of the United Nations issued a message to the Haitian authorities, instructing them to quickly reschedule the presidential election postponed this week. The UN body also urged all sides to remain calm and refrain from violence or other provocations and to solve electoral disputes through legal rules and regulations. The 15 members of the UN Security Council also issued a statement in their strong commitment to supporting free and fair elections. As you may remember, the CEP published results of the presidential election and declared that Jovenel Moise came in first place with 32.8 per cent of the votes and Celestin placed second with 25.3 per cent. Some opponents allege fraud by the Martelly PHTK party. An election evaluation committee has been established in an attempth to solve the current crisis, but no new date has been set for the run-off election. The election evaluation committee has until December 30 to issue their recommendation.
Haiti Election Postponed
On December 21, 2015, Haiti's election council made an announcement for the postponement of the December 27th presidential runoff amid accusations of frauds and irregularities by the opposition candidates. However, the UN Security Council has urged the Haitian administration for a quick reschedule of its postponed presidential election to avoid further unrest. The second round of the presidential election was scheduled to be held on December 27th, because the two leading candidates of the first round election on October 25, 2015, could not reach the electoral mandates of 50% plus vote benchmark, or a lead of over 25% votes as prescribed by the Haiti's Constitution and Electoral Decree to win the presidential race. Voter turnout on the October 25 election day was also very low -- only 1.5 million of the 5 million registered voters were present to exercise their rights at the polling stations. There were numerous allegation of false voting, manipulation on counting and there were huge protests against the results published by the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) favoring the outgoing president Martelly's candidate Jovenel Moise.
Renmen Ayiti said no to Euvonie Georges Auguste in Commission
Platform Renmen Ayiti was in shock to learn that member of its Board, Mambo Euvonie Georges Auguste, was appoint by President Michel Martelly to be part of his Commission of Electoral Evaluation and as a result has formally requested that she renounces to any participation in this Commission. For the Political Platform, the formation of this Commission is contrary to the request of the G8 which calls of preference in favor of the establishment of an independent commission of inquiry. In addition, Platform Renmen Ayiti denounced the new Commission of Electoral Evaluation, saying that it is contrary to the request of the G8 which calls for the establishment of an independent commission of inquiry.
G8 and Fanmi Lavalas reject Commission of Electoral Evaluation
The current political crisis in Haiti has reached an unprecedent level. The creation of an evaluation commission was supposed to facilitate the electoral process; however, somehow it has managed to make things worst. Now both the Group G8 with jude Celestin and Fanmi Lavalas rejected the Commission of Evaluation. they actually consider this action as the latest manouver by the president and are calling on the Haitian population for keep the pressure on the government.
The group G8 said that the learned the formation of a commission via the news media. They also stated that they noted that the request for the formation of a commission came from the CEP but the request was never made public. Both G8 and Fanmi lavalas feel that both the Executive and the CEP that are at the origin of this commission are part of the current problem and that it is unthinkable to have them engaged in the formation of a commission to impose a solution to the problem.
New decree for the creation of Commission of Electoral Evaluation
In a Decree issued on December 16, 2015, President Martelly created a commission called Commission of Electoral Evaluation. This mission of this new commission is to guarantee tramsparency, credibility and legitimity of the electoral process. The Commission is composed as follows :
Mr Rony Desroches
Mgr Patrick Aris
Mr Joseph Emmanuel Charlemagne (Manno)
Mrs Euvonie Georges Auguste
Mr Anthony Pascal (Kompe Filo)
Article 3 of this Decree gives both candidates qualified for the second round the possibility to appoint a representative to attend the proceedings of the Commission
Haitian Kreyol:
Nouvo dekrè pou kreyasyon yon Komisyon Evalyasyon Elektoral
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