Violent fight on the first day of the presidential fifteen

Tuesday, the presentation of the program of Sauveur Pierre Etienne, OPL candidate who opened the presidential fifteen, https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-15271-haiti-news-electoral-zapping.html was disrupted by a small group of students of the Faculty Of Humanities (FASCH) that have transformed what should have been a democratic debate evening in a violent physical confrontation where teachers of the faculty were assaulted with fists and chairs.

The presidential candidate of the OPL, which avoided being injured in extremis, could not make his presentation.

Denunciations in series...

Charles Henry Baker, the president of "Respè" Party, denounced the final results of the first round of legislative elections published by the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-15281-haiti-flash-final-results-of-the-1st-round-of-legislative-elections-of-august-9-2015.html considering that they do not reflect the reality of the vote. Charles Henry Baker estimated that several candidates of his party are victims of injustice on the part of CEP he accuses of being at the service of a well-defined sector.

Evallière Beauplan, Candidate to the Senate for the North West, under the banner of PONT, disputes the final results of the partial parliamentary and claims her victory in the first round. She spoke of organized theft and promises to give a response to the Electoral Council.

Dieuseul Simon Desras, Candidate for President of PALMIS party also denounced the publication of the first round results for several departments including constituencies in which the vote was canceled while in others in the same situation, the results were validated.

Vérité against Vérité

For the post of second senator for West, two candidates of Party VERITÉ Antonio Cheramy (57,881 votes, 15.70%) and Alix Didier Fils Aimé (24,057 votes, 6.52%), will face in the second round on 25 October.

Recall that the candidate Jean Renel Senatus aka "Zoiki" was elected in the first round in this department with 101.884 votes, by decision of BCED. https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-15281-haiti-flash-final-results-of-the-1st-round-of-legislative-elections-of-august-9-2015.html

Moreover, the Platform VERITÉ denounces the method of calculation used by the CEP to declare winner in the first round the candidate Sénatus and ask the Electoral Council to apply the same method of calculation for all candidates...

The CEP expects the financial reports of political parties

Ricardo Augustine, Treasurer of the Provisional Electoral Council is expecting the financial reports of political parties prior to disbursement of the second tranche of funds for the financing of political parties...

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