Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) on Monday announced that the country will hold its first presidential elections in a decade in December.
Haiti has not held any kind of election since the November 2016 presidential election that resulted in the victory of late President Jovenel Moïse, who postponed 2019’s legislative elections and was ruling by decree until his assassination in July 2021.
Moïse’s death led to violent gangs overrunning the nation and taking control of large swaths of territory, including areas of the capital city of Port-au-Prince. A new surge of gang violence halted initial efforts to hold an election this year, prompting Acting Interim Prime Minster Alix Didier Fils-Aime...
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