Haiti - FLASH : 149 candidates for 10 seats in the Senate (list)

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Haiti - FLASH : 149 candidates for 10 seats in the Senate (list)
19/07/2016 09:30:37

149 candidates (13 women and 136 men) will compete on 9 October for the first round of elections of the renewal of third of the Senate.

The dominance of the number of men candidates (91.27%) over the women candidates is overwhelming, far from the respect of minimum 30% quota for women stipulated in the amended Constitution.

Distribution of candidates at national level :
Department North East out of 10 candidates, one is a woman candidate; Nippes out of 11 candidates there is one woman candidate; Northwest, Central and South, where here is respectively 11, 12 and 12 candidates, there is no woman candidate; Southeast out of a total of 12 candidates, there are 2 women candidates; North and West there are respectively 20 and 25 candidates, there are 3 women candidates in both departments and finally in Artibonite out of 25 candidates there are 2 women candidates.

List of 13 women candidates in the Senate :
West : Vedrigue Hersche Marie Liliane "Mouvman Revolisyone Ayisyen" (MRA # 58) ;
West : Morpeau Sabine Duvivier (CANAAN #73) ;
South East : Moise Marie Sylvia Fabien (MOPANOU #71) ;
Artibonite : Louissint Exitane "Plateforme Politique 3ème Voie" (3ème Voie #75) ;
Artibonite : Limage Roseline "Konbit Liberasyon Ekonomik" (KLE #96) ;
Northeast : Leandre Mona Eliacint "Rassemblement des Démocrates Nationaux Progressistes" (RDNP #147) ;
South East : Jameau Miralda (Fanmi Lavalas #54) ;
North : Gilles Cemephise "Ansanm Patriyot Pou Lavni Ayiti" (APLA #41) ;
North : Francois Guerda "Plateforme Politique 3ème Voie" (3ème Voie #75) ;
North : Eugene Elvire "Parti Fusion Des Sociaux-Democrates Haitiens" (FUSION #38)
Nippes : Dumelfort Marie Carme Sineas "Parti Haitien Tet Kale" (PHTK #5) ;
West : Bazile Sheila Monsanto "Konvansyon Inite Demokratik" (KID #94) ;
Grand’Anse : Aubourg Marie Roselore "Konvansyon Inite Demokratik" (KID #94).

Download the official list of 149 candidates :
https://www.haitilibre.com/docs/candidats-tiers-senat-2016.pdf

SL/ HaitiLibre