Brazil and the United States adds $6 million for elections

Friday, Sophie De Caen, the Senior Director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced that the trust funds for the organization of the upcoming elections of $38 million, increased to $44 million through additional contributions from Brazil and the United States who have bring $6 million. Recall that the overall election budget is USD $68.5 million.

Last cartridges of the Collective of excluded candidates to legislative

Members of the Collective of excluded candidates to partial legislative excluded from the electoral process continue to demand that their names be added to the list of approved candidates. They accuse the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) of violating international conventions on electoral matters. These candidates sidelined, intend to force the electoral institution to reconsider its decision. Otherwise, electoral advisers will be forced to resign, signal one of the members of the collective, former deputy Félito Dorant.

Second delivery of electoral kits

Friday around 6:15pm a second cargo of electoral kits for the upcoming parliamentary elections arrived in Port-au-Prince, via a Lufthansa cargo chartered by the company LITHOTHEC, the supplier of these kits based in South Africa https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-14319-icihaiti-elections-non-sensitive-materials-come-from-south-africa.html This delivery includes 4,421 electoral kits (ballot boxes transparent PVC, cardboard voting booths, indelible ink and electoral hardware). The third lot will arrive tomorrow Sunday early afternoon.

The AIDH request a revision of the electoral calendar

International Action for Human Rights (AIDH) sent a letter to the President of the Provisional Electoral Council, asking him to reconsider the electoral calendar, explaining its concerns regarding the achievement of elections in 3 times and pleading for elections in 2 times, due to the difficulties and the many accumulated delays, the AIDH invites the CEP to take the necessary arrangements to organize partial legislative elections scheduled for August 2015 in October 2015 along with the first round of presidentials.

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