Haiti just dropped its election schedule after years of putting it off, and the country wants to run general elections next summer, even though gangs basically run half the capital. Jacques Desrosiers from the Provisional Electoral Council said voting happens in two rounds on specific dates next year, but security has to get way better first, or the whole thing falls apart. The plan covers the president, the Senate, the Chamber of Deputies, and a bunch of local spots.
The place hasn't voted since way back, and the last elected president got assassinated a few years ago. Port-au-Prince is partially controlled by armed groups that forced out the old prime minister, and a UN report said over 16,000 people have died from violence over the past couple of years. Right now, the Transitional Presidential Council runs things until early next year.
Laurent Saint-Cyr from that council posted online, saying this gives people a chance to pick leaders again, but gang chaos keeps messing everything up with kidnappings and territory grabs. The UN sent a multinational force to help police, but that mission has been struggling with low resources and weak results on the ground.
The place hasn't voted since way back, and the last elected president got assassinated a few years ago. Port-au-Prince is partially controlled by armed groups that forced out the old prime minister, and a UN report said over 16,000 people have died from violence over the past couple of years. Right now, the Transitional Presidential Council runs things until early next year.
Laurent Saint-Cyr from that council posted online, saying this gives people a chance to pick leaders again, but gang chaos keeps messing everything up with kidnappings and territory grabs. The UN sent a multinational force to help police, but that mission has been struggling with low resources and weak results on the ground.
