The President Martelly will not grant any discharge by decree

Friday, Lucien Jura, the Presidential spokesman confirmed that President Michel Martelly had no intention of granting discharge by decree to any of his former ministers or former prime minister "Not at all, the executive intend to take a presidential decree to promote the participation of former accounting of public funds in elections [...] Michel Martelly is sticking to the principles of separation of the three powers." According to the spokesman of the Presidency, the Head of State does not intend to create any precedent regrettable.

The CEP would be above court decisions...

Concerning certain presidential candidates who have of the Tribunal of referred a decision allowing them to participate in elections without a Discharge Certificate (it is the case of Laurent Lamothe), the Adviser Néhémy Joseph said that the CEP can not be bound by the decision of any court in the country, as part of the electoral process...

Date for the verdicts of challenges, still unknown...

Friday during a press conference, asked about the verdicts of the 23 candidates for presidency contested and processed by the Departmental Electoral Office of Litigation (BCED) https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-13995-haiti-flash-23-presidential-candidates-challenged-list.html , Pierre Louis Opont, the President of the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) nor other advisers present who spoke, have put forward a date to which electoral judges should deliberate...

The CEP has cash flow problems...

Ricardo Augustine, the Treasurer of the Electoral Council indicated that the CEP was facing serious liquidity problems He reported Friday that to date, all members of the Departmental Electoral Offices (BED) and of 143 Communal Electoral Offices (BED) working since September 2014 and those recently recruited, received no salary yet... In addition, we must add a debt of 18 million gourdes to 220 employees dismissed earlier this year after the expiry of their contract and fuel supply difficulties...

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