Wednesday President a.i. Jocelerme Privert on the sidelines of the government retreat held at the Karibe Convention Center declared "The implementation of the Verification Commission of elections of 2015 is indispensable to restoring confidence in the electoral process and political stability," recalling that the agreement of 6 February https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-16533-haiti-politic-the-details-of-the-agreement-from-a-to-z.html to the point V) asks the "Implementation of the technical recommendations of the Independent Commission of Electoral Evaluation." which are in line with a thorough verification of certain decisions of contentious instances. Beyond any political interpretation of the words in the recommendations of the Independent Commission of evaluation it is stipulated "[...] a closer examination on the technical level of the responsibility of the electoral machine in the irregularities often assimilated to the massive fraud" https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-16231-haiti-elections-the-recommendations-of-the-commission-of-electoral-evaluation.html

President Privert claimed to have received several proposals for terms of reference for the Verification Commission and that he would consolidate them in order to take into account the concerns of all stakeholders.

With much more nuance, Prime Minister Jean-Charles said he was open to a certain form of verification stressing that there is a difference between the commission of verification and evaluation of steps already taken in the process provided for in the agreement of February 5 and promises for next week, a final decision on the issue.

Wednesday, Prime Minister Enex Jean-Charles said that "the priority of his government is determined and fixed by the agreement of 5 February, ie the continuation of the 2015 elections. The agreement of February 5, provides for the evaluation of the electoral process of 2015. We are open a certain form of verification, which must be as close as possible to the agreement of February 5."

Note that Rosny Desroches, Executive Director of the Initiative for Civil Society (ISC) and former Spokesman of the Independent Electoral Commission of Evaluation (of which he was a member) recently reminded that it is impossible to know who benefited of irregularities in this election to the extent that all the candidates seem to have benefited.

In addition he insists on those who raise their voices to demand these verifications because of fraud that they present strong evidence and not rumors. Recalling that in the conclusions of the report of the Independent Commission it is written only "[...] Members of the commission found no evidence of the presence of widespread electoral fraud to favor one candidate, only on the basis of testimonies gathered the commission said in its report that several candidates have received by their representatives benefited from their representatives to the BV of these irregularities assimilated to fraud."

HL/ HaitiLibre