Haiti election officials are poised to accept the recommendations of a special verification commission calling for last year’s disputed first round presidential elections to be re-run in October.

In a meeting Saturday with representatives of major political parties, the nine-member Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) said it’s prepared to publish an electoral timetable calling for the presidential balloting to occur on Oct. 9. If a candidate doesn’t get the required votes to win, the second round would occur on Jan. 8, 2017, with the final election results published on Jan. 30, two political party representatives confirmed to the Miami Herald.

The October elections would also include balloting for one-third of the Senate . Still unclear, elections officials said, is what to do about the commission’s findings concerning legislative candidates who were defrauded out of their seats by alleged payoffs and bad decisions by the electoral courts.

Party representatives were told that the presidential race, which fielded 54 candidates, will not be reopened to new candidates and the current 54 will have between Wednesday and June 27 to confirm their participation in the election.

Gerald Germain, spokesman for No. 2 finisher Jude Celestin, said his candidate agrees with the timetable and the CEP’s proposal.

“We’ve always contended that the Oct. 25 elections were not elections,” he said.

Earlier this week, Celestin broke his silence and said that while the report confirmed his allegations of “massive” election fraud despite the international community saying it was one of Haiti’s better votes, the beneficiaries of the fraud should be removed.

Mathias Pierre, a presidential candidate who had removed his candidacy in favor of supporting former Sen. Moïse Jean-Charles, agreed. Pierre said the party will meet to take an official stance on the CEP’s proposal and whether Jean-Charles, who finished No. 3, will participate.

“There should be sanctions for those who benefited from the fraud,” Pierre said, speaking on behalf of Jean-Charles’ Pitit Dessalines party. “We’ve requested that the CEP allocate more time to discussing the report.”

Former President Michel Martelly’s PHTK party and its candidate, Jovenel Moise, have rejected the verification report, calling it unconstitutional and illegal. Spokesman Renald Luberice could not be reached for comment.

His phone was off.

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COMMENT: HAITIAN-TRUTH.ORG

This is a suspiciously weird article.

Doesn’t mention any names of 2 political parties involved. Haiti has a couple hundred parties, some with only a guy, his wife, and dog. Sometimes the wife has dropped out,  and the dog prefers Jovenel.

Also mentions no CEP names.

Celestin has always been a Miami Herald favorite for unknown reasons. After all, he was involved, directly, with the murder of the CIE chief, whose job he stole. He was also involved with smuggling the Aristide/Preval hit man, Amarol Duclona, into the Dominican Republic when the killer’s arrest was imminent.

Duclona spilled the beans during MINUSTAH interrogation in the DR and at trial in France.

Moise Jean-Charles, a killer, convicted criminal and beneficiary of loaded ballot boxes in the election that saw Preval give him the Senate seat, doesn’t seem to have had anyone at the meeting.  This guy got something like 14,000 votes in an area with 12,000 people.

Sounds Irish!

Celestin suggests those who benefitted from fraud should be disqualified.

Celestin and Moise Jean-Charles would be eliminated – IMMEDIATELY.

Sadly, Haitians see the Francois Benoit commission for what it was/is. A simple, criminal step to derail elections, paid for by Privert.

We should have seen an immediate run-off between Celestin and Jovenl Moise. This would have answered all of the questions.

Instead, we have given Aristide/Preval the opportunity to attack Martelly/Lamothe, creating an atmosphere in which they can steal – yet again – the power.

A PHTK member went on the radio, to challenge the Miami Herald article, and Lavalas killers followed him from studio, in an attempt to assassinate him.

Luckily, some PNH officers were close by and prevented this.

People will not be so lucky in the future.

Privert is a sick, vicious killer.

Aristide and Preval are more thoughtful, but just as dangerous.

TANTATIVE D’ASSASSINAT CONTRE Me KEDLAIRE HIER, APRE RANMSE.
Asasen nan yon machin wouj râle zam sou mwen yer lem soti nan ranmase poumkanpe, mwen akselere. Yo fe plis ke 15 minit yo ap kouri deyem nan delma. 19 ak 29 jiskaskem pedi yo, mwen antre DCPJ mal de sekou epi direkteu DCPJ à banm tout asistans li, jiskaske yon patwouy DCPJ mennenm. Lakay mwen. Sim pa abil sou volan e si se pa Bondye neg yo tap asasinen âpre emisyon ranmase. Pandan map bat poum chape sou neg yo mwen te eseye rele Jean Mona poul bay nouvel la m’en mwen pat. Jwenn lim mwen rele Ke brize se li ki l’âge nouvel la souradyo idéal. Âpre sa mwen te an kontak ak kek responsab PHTK ki te konseye antre DCPJ.                      Mwen vle di à toutfanmi mwen akzanmim kem lakay mwen kounya gras à Dye. Yon gwo mesi a tout dirijan PHTK, depi Jovene,an pasan pa Anne Valery, Christine, Elsa, Delege Joe Lambert, Mehu, Jura, Luberice, Doré pou rive nan militan PHTK ki te gen tan pran lari a pou vin edem san yo pa menm konnenki kote kem. Te ye. Baz PHTK ak baz Jovenel nan grandans, latibonit, No, nodes e latriye.Rezo sipoteu Jovenel nan nodwes ak tout moun nodwes ki te enkyete. Zanmi ki releem pou konfime kem an vi.                                                              Map raple ke atak sa a vini âpre ke rejim Privert ate komanse ap sikile yon lis gen non Me Kedlaire kom manm komisyon verifikasyon yo. A san kem pat konnen. Danton Legerte fe kouri. Bri nan radyo karayib,signal, Scoop kem se konsiltan li. Mwen te. Rele sou tout radyo poum te demantil e dil kem pa bezwen djob nan gouvenman nan ekip Privert. Anpil otorite nan gouvenman Privert à te relm mwen di non. Se te premye strateji pouyo femen bouch mwen ki echwe. Kounya se eten souf mwen. Ki Objektif la.                                                            Nou toujou pridan,men nou pap fe bak. Kounyanou lakay nou. Ni fizik mwen nimoral mwen pa afekte.                                              Yon fwa anko mesi pou solidarite nou.