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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
The
Organization of American States (OAS) will send an Electoral
Observation Mission to the presidential, legislative, municipal and
local elections to be held in Haiti in 2015, according to the agreement
signed today by the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, and the
Minister of Foreign Relations of Haiti, Lener Renauld.
Secretary General Almagro said that, despite the difficulties, the
setting of the dates for the elections “is a show of the democratic
vocation of Haiti that serves to impel us to work closely to offer the
maximum guarantees at the counting of votes, something that lies at the
very essence of democracy.”
For his part, Foreign Minister Renauld said the signing of the
agreement is an expression of the will of the President of his country,
Michel Martelly, to accompany the work of the Provisional Electoral
Council, the body charged with carrying out the elections. “I wish to
recall that the government of Haiti accompanies the Council, but does
not intervene in its work. Therefore, the signing of this agreement
shows the will of the President not to intervene in its labors,” he
said.
The first round of legislative elections will take place
August 9, and the first round of presidential and municipal and local elections will take place on
October 25. The second round of the presidential election will be held on
December 27.
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