Haiti's CEP Approves 17 Groupings and 88 Political Parties for Elections
The electoral council closed its party-regrouping process, cutting the field from 316 to 105 organizations.
Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) ended the political-party regrouping process on Friday, August 14, according to Le Nouvelliste. At the close of the process, 17 groupings and 88 political parties were approved for the coming elections. The council reported that of the 316 parties it had previously validated, the regrouping mechanism reduced the total to 105 political organizations. According to the report, the 17 party groupings that had been approved by the CEP the previous week did not opt to further regroup. With that, the Provisional Electoral Council formally concluded the process on Friday. The development follows related electoral steps cited by the outlet, including the publication of the definitive list of approved political groupings and the launch of an accreditation process for journalists and electoral observers. Le Nouvelliste also noted the expected visit of Organization of American States Secretary General Albert Ramdin to Port-au-Prince. Further details on the electoral calendar were not specified in the source excerpt.