Elections in Haiti: the elusive calendar masks real problems

In countries where elections regulate the political game, electoral deadlines are enshrined in law. The dates are known. Appointments are set years in advance, and everything is arranged to respect the duration of mandates and renew the political staff.

In Haiti, since the 1987 Constitution prescribed elections, more often than not, appointments with the ballot box do not hold. They are skipped, avoided, circumvented. For ten thousand reasons.

Sometimes, Haitian electoral deadlines are not found in any known calendar.

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