Work to overhaul the electoral law in preparation for upcoming competitions still uncertain

A working committee was set up in the provisional electoral council (CEP) in order to achieve "an overhaul of the electoral law", under the aegis of which were held presidential and legislative elections of November 2010 and March 2011.

Laurette Councillor election belief, the lawyers of the Legal Section of Vine and an expert of United Nations (UN) are part of the working committee, according to the information has read the online agency AlterPresse .

There are 2 weeks, held a meeting of the electoral body and various national and international partners to planning for future events of the end of 2011 to renew a third of the Senate and communities authorities (city councils and boards of communal sections / CASEC).

In principle, 10 new senators will take office in January 2012, if new elections are held at the end of 2011.

With the approach of 100 days after the inauguration of a new president in Haiti, there is no formal government (except an outgoing government, which manages "current affairs"), in which an election calendar, including a budget execution could be carried.

No one knows if the political parties will agree to participate in upcoming games with the current team Cep, so maligned and suspected corruption in the presidential and legislative elections in November 2010 and March 2011.

Long before the departure of former President Rene Garcia Preval, the rumor of the possibility of appointment of municipal councils and boards of communal sections in the various local authorities.

A project that would not spread to the arrival of President Joseph Michel Martelly!

Time passes. There are less than four months to plan regular competitions before the end of 2012. Is it still will not attend the elections to the most urgent, without any real consultation with all stakeholders?

Therefore, a new electoral crisis could result from consultations botched ...

In the meantime, only the electoral advisers Thelev Jean Pierre Toussaint and Laurette Belief come to their positions at the headquarters of Cep in Petionville (east of the capital).

Councillor Jacques Belzin election is officially outside the country, due to illness.

Councillor Ginette Cherubin election had resigned from the Vine.

The Electoral Council, Jean Enel Désir, representing the Roman Catholic Church in the institution, 66, died on Sunday 1st May 2011, in his private residence following a heart attack. Enel Jean Desir, who was removed from the electoral institution on charges of corruption, was dismissed in August 2010 and decided to return to the Vine in 2011.

The President of the Vine, Gaillot Dorsainvil and other advisors Ribelli Pierre, Antenor Warrior, Leonel Raphael, "have failed to present themselves" to their offices "with respect for two weeks," says AlterPresse to a part of the institution.

Dorsainvil, Pierre, Warrior and Raphael, who were called to appear before the floor of the Civil Court of Port-au-Prince since July 14, 2011, did not respond (to date) to the convening of the Government Commissioner Jean-Sonel Francis.

The lack of a majority of nine electoral advisers would not unduly affects the operation of the Vine in recent weeks, according to a source contacted by AlterPresse.