The Communication Office of the Presidency confirmed that the sub commission in charge of work on the terms of reference of the Independent Commission for Electoral Evaluation and Verification had delivered Thursday, April 14, 2016, its final report to President a.i. Jocelrme Privert for validation purposes.

Indicating that after two days of work, the members of this subcommission have agreed on the composition of the Commission, its mission, its mandate and the deadline for fulfilling its tasks.

Recall that this Independent Commission for Electoral Evaluation and Verification has as main mission of restoring the confidence of political actors in the electoral process by establishing the accuracy of the results of the 2015 elections.

For now, the Government has not officially communicated details on the terms of this report. However, we learned informally with members of this Subcommission and various sources: that it is proposed that the Commission be composed of 5 members : one representative of the Order of Chartered Accountants, 1 representative of the Association of engineers / architects of Haiti, 1 representative of the Anglican church, 1 former election adviser and one member of the Independent Electoral Commission of evaluation of 2015. We also learned that Me Gédéon Jean was selected as representative of the former Commission (established under the administration Martelly-Paul) and François Benoit, a former adviser to the CEP, still remainb 3 other members to be appointed.

According to Pierre Esperance (RNDDH) one of the members of the subcommission, the Verification Commission should be limited to the polls of 25 October, the first round of presidential elections, the second round of parliamentary and municipal elections.

According to its terms of reference the Commission will have at the level of confirmed fraud, identify fraudsters who must be punished, however, it seems according to our sources, that the exclusion of persons receiving these frauds is not in the terms of reference adopted by the subcommission...

Finally, the Commission would have a term of 30 days from next week to carry out its work.

To be continued...

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-17154-haiti-elections-draft-outline-of-the-commission-of-electoral-verification.html

HL/ HaitiLibre