Haïti : l'ONU et ses partenaires appellent à respecter le nouveau calendrier électoral

Reports the joint Core Group statement of Monday 6 June 2016, signed by UN Special Representative Sandra Honoré together with Brazil, Canada, Spain, France, the United States, the European Union and the OAS, after the Provisional Electoral Council took the independent verification commission's report into account and presented a new electoral calendar. The statement urged Haitian actors to keep to that calendar while saying the signatories remained deeply concerned by the decision to redo the presidential election, which would carry a financial cost and lengthen the process begun in 2015. The article reports, citing the press, that the commission had recommended annulling the 25 October 2015 presidential first round for fraud and completely reorganising the vote, and that the Council announced the same Monday a first round on 9 October 2016 and a second round on 8 January 2017.