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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
 The Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (EOM/OAS) for
this Sunday’s
elections in Haiti, headed by Brazil’s former Foreign Minister and
Defense Minister Celso Amorim, will complete its deployment this week
with the arrival of 125 international experts and observers from 27
different countries.
This team joins the specialists who have
been in the country since October 1 to observe preparations for the
presidential, legislative, and local elections on
Sunday, October 25.
To
make the voting process more efficient, the Mission urges voters to use
the means placed at their disposal by the Provisional Electoral Council
(CEP), including voter lists published in its departmental and
municipal offices and on its website, to determine beforehand where they
should vote. The Mission also urges citizens to be patient on election
day, given the complexity of organizing an process that will
simultaneously elect a president, deputies, senators, and municipal
councils, which may delay the opening of polling places and the vote
counting.
The EOM/OAS has verified the work that is being done
jointly by the Haitian National Police (PNH, from its initials in
French) and the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) to
strengthen election-day security, to avoid a recurrence of the violence
that occurred during the legislative elections of
August 9.
The Mission appeals to all political parties and citizens to join in
these efforts by coming out to vote in a massive, orderly, and peaceful
manner.
The Mission considers that the
October 25
elections are a great opportunity for Haitian democracy and one that
should be taken advantage of. To this end, the EOM/OAS reiterates that
it is essential for all stakeholders in the electoral process to work
together to ensure elections that are conducted normally and respect the
will of the Haitian people.
On October 25 the OAS will deploy
three simultaneous Electoral Observation Missions with more than 230
observers in three subregions of the Hemisphere: Central America, South
America, and the Caribbean. In addition to Haiti, there will be
observers in Guatemala and Colombia. It will be the first time that
three EOMs are deployed on the same day since the first Mission in 1962.
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