The head of the legal section of the CEP revoked

Marie Carmelle Paul Austin Conseillère electoral Adviser onfirmed that Me Anthony Mathieu Chérubin, the Director of the Legal Affairs Section of the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP), was dismissed from his post for "serious administrative faults". "The Council had conducted a series of evaluations at the end of this process, several serious administrative mistakes were identified at the Legal Department," affirmed the advider.

Recall that it is the Legal Affairs Department, which is responsible for analyzing all files of candidates for parliamentary, municipal and presidential and submit lists of approved candidates.

The rejection of contestation do not exclude a candidate to be excluded

The Electoral Adviser Néhémy Joseph, said that all 70 files of presidential candidates were analyzed in the light of Article 90 of the Electoral Decree which specifies the 15 riteria that a candidate must meet to be accepted. It also recalls that even a candidate challenged whose charges were rejected by the Departmental Electoral Office of Litigation (BCEDs) may be excluded from the final list of approved candidates if it does not meet the 15 criteria of Article 90.

The certificate of discharge, reckoning instrument of revenge ?

The exclusion of presidential candidates for failing to discharge, including that of former Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-14081-haiti-flash-rejection-of-the-candidacy-of-laurent-lamothe.html raises many reactions of incomprehension among many, especially since Pierre-Louis Opont, the current President of the Electoral Council, holds this position without having itself provided of discharge for its management of the CEP in 2010.

Furthermore it is necessary to remember that in 2010, Pierre-Louis Opont, had organized inclusive elections with the participation of all public funds managers who wished it, accepting that candidates participate in the process without Certificate of discharge, while there was at that time a functioning Parliament and an electoral law...

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