CARICOM to deploy mission to Haiti as part of new mandate

P-au-P, July 31, 2024 (AlterPresse) – The Coordinator of Operations of the Presidential Council announced that a delegation from the Caribbean Community (Caricom) will arrive in Haiti within 10 days, possibly before mid-August 2024, Ministry of Transition (Cpt) Edgard Leblanc Fils said during the 47th Ordinary Session of CARICOM in Grenada on Tuesday, July 30, 2024, followed by AlterPresse.

The mission will be carried out by the CARICOM Group of Eminent Persons (Gpe). Leblanc Fils added that it is part of a new mission to ensure, together with the Cpt, the implementation of the April 3, 2024 agreement signed between stakeholders in the crisis.

It also plans to oversee the electoral process, which will lead to Haiti organizing elections in 2025.

During July 2024, Cpt Started a process Thus appointing representatives from different sectors to the board of directors of the Provisional Electoral Council (Cep).

In accordance with the decree of May 27, 2024, we have sent letters to different institutions inviting them to choose the person who will represent their respective departments.

more, Difficulties are palpable Appointment of next CEP members at the request of Cpt.

The CPT Operation Coordinator tried to reassure the public that the electoral process will continue until the election results are known at the end of 2025.

Meanwhile, the Presidential Transitional Council and the Transitional Government are working to establish transitional institutions to put Haiti institutionally on track to hold elections by the end of 2025.

Through the Political Agreement for a Peaceful and Orderly Transition signed by the political protagonists on April 3, 2024, in order to resolve the political deadlock, the Communist Party authorized itself to create a new Executive Council in the European Parliament to organize general elections and provide the country with legitimate elected officials to take office in February 2026.

Haiti, which was supposed to organize the renewal of its political personnel, has not held elections for several years and is still under the influence of armed gangs that occupy more than 80% of the population of the metropolitan area of ​​​​the capital Port-au-Prince. Prince. (emb rc 2024-04-07 31 10:25)