Assassination plot against members of the CEP

The electoral adviser Me Néhémy Joseph denounces a plot of the Collective of excluded candidates aimed to fail the electoral process and to assassinate him and other electoral advisers. He says that an amount of 5,000 US dollars have been paid to criminals to execute those assassinations... Explaining that the first step of the conspiracy aimed at destabilizing the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) and secondly physical assault electoral advisers and sow panic by shooting on the polling stations...

Jonas Coffy, a member of the Collective, which qualifies Néhémy Joseph of corrupt, rejects out of hand the allegations and accused the Election Adviser Néhémy Joseph, to have demanded money to candidates excluded from the race to reintegrate them on the list of approved candidates. Furthermore he believes that Me Joseph would be willing to eliminate some of his colleagues, to become President of the CEP...

Demonstration of the platform Vérité

On Monday, hundreds of people have took the streets in Port-au-Prince to the call of officials of the Platform "Vérité" to demand the reinstatement of the University leader, Jacky Lumarque as presidential candidate. The protesters, all the way shouted hostile remarks to the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) they accused of bias and corruption.

Gender Violence, towards the signing of a pact of candidates

Friday during a workshop-debate organized with representatives of groupings and political parties and candidates for legislative and presidential, by the organization "Solidarite Fanm Ayisyen" (SOFA) was solicited the commitment of candidates for elected positions in the fight against violence done to women. According to Olga Benoit, Head of SOFA, this workshop-debate must lead to the signing by the future elected of a pact of commitment on the need for a framework law in Haiti on this issue.

Launch of a civic education campaign

According to Frantz Bernadin and Philippes Augustin, respectively CEP Spokesperson and Director of the electoral register, ballot papers, for 4 departments are ready. The arrival of sensitive materials (ballots, minutes) will be announced shortly. Furthermore he announced that from this Tuesday, June 30, a civic education campaign will be launched in order to encourage the population to massively go to the polls to renew the political staff.

HL/ HaitiLibre