P-au-P, August 26, 2024 [AlterPresse] — More than a month after the launch of the process, which should result in the appointment of delegates to the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP)the majority of sectors remain divided on the choice of their respective representatives at the Cep, according to information gathered by the online agency AlterPresse.
Suspicions of influence peddling, even of shady dealings, in the run-up to possible elections in 2025, are also denounced.
However, it is this Monday, August 26, 2024 that the additional deadline granted to these sectors to submit to the Presidential Transitional Council (Cpt) the names of their representatives to be included in the next board of directors of the CEP should expire.
Various disputes continue to mar the process of designating representatives of the human rights, peasant, union, women, Protestant, voodoo and university sectors within the CEP.
In a letter dated August 23, 2024 addressed to the Cpt, the Platform of Haitian Human Rights Organizations (Pohdh) declares that it is formally withdrawing from the process of designating a representative of the human rights sector to the Cep.
“The process, which was supposed to lead to the appointment of a representative of the human rights sector to the CEP, was flawed from the start,” she justifies.
The Pohdh warns the Cpt against the designation of a personality to represent the human rights sector at the CEP, which would risk undermining the credibility and legitimacy of the future electoral body.
In a correspondence dated July 8, 2024, the Cpt had designated the Platform of Haitian Human Rights Organizations to lead the said process, alongside the Citizen Organization for a New Haiti (OCNH).
The Pohdh reports having expressed its concerns to the Cpt, particularly with regard to the interference of the President-Counsellor Frinel Joseph in the process.
Initially, there were deep disagreements between the Pohdh and the Ocnh, concerning the criteria for participation of the organizations.
Without consulting us, the National network of Haitian peasants (Renapa) has decided to forward the name of Jacques Céus to the Cpt as representative of the peasant sector, protests the Platform of peasant organizations. 4 Is Contrain a note dated August 21, 2024.
Chosen to ensure the coordination of this process with Renapa (a little-known organization in Haiti), the platform 4 Is Contra reports having written several letters to the Cpt, to alert him to the poor progress of the process, but without obtaining a response.
“Renapa is not a peasant organization, but rather a satellite organization of the political party Son of Desalin (of Jean-Charles Moïse), who represented the said party with the Caribbean Community (Caricom) in discussions, in May 2024, on the crisis in Haiti,” the platform castigates 4 is a counter.
This indifference clearly shows how much peasant organizations are victims of a plot, fomented at the highest level, considers the platform of peasant organizations. 4 Is Contrabringing together The head of the Haitian peasant (Tk), National Peasant Movement Congress Papáy (MPNKP), Regional coordination organization. southeast (cross country), Papáy Peasant Movement (Mpp).
The platform 4 Is Contra asks the Cpt to relaunch the process, with real peasant organizations, to make it reliable, honest and democratic.
There are also differences of opinion among the voodoo, women’s, Protestant, union and university sectors on the method of appointing a representative to the Cep.
In a note, the Cpt reiterated his determination to work tirelessly, with a view to completing, by the end of August 2024, the process of designating the people to be part of the Cep.
The announced deadline of Wednesday, August 28, 2024, to finalize this process, will be respected, promised the Cpt whose mandate is to set up the Cep, in order to organize general elections to provide the country with legitimate elected officials to take office on February 7, 2026.
It remains to be seen how the CPT, which was implicated in the method of choosing organizations that were to ensure the coordination of the steps for the choice of sectoral delegates, intends to go about setting up the next Provisional Electoral Council, without the real participation of different representative sectors in society in Haiti.
These elections to renew political personnel have not been able to be organized for several years in Haiti.
The security situation has deteriorated on the national territory, particularly in the metropolitan area of the capital, Port-au-Prince, besieged by more than 80% of armed gangs, and in the department of Artibonite.
More than 600,000 people have already been forced to move within Haiti since 2023. [emb rc apr 26/08/2024 12:10]
