End of the challenge period Friday

The Executive Director of the Provisional Electoral Council, informs the general public, parties, political groups and candidates in particular that, according to articles 175 and 183 of the Electoral Decree in force, the challenges filing are to be done within 72 hours from the posting of preliminary results. Accordingly, given that the preliminary results were posted on Tuesday 29 November at 10 am, the deadline for challenging the preliminary results of the presidential elections will expire on Friday, 2 December 2016, at 10 am. The Registry of the Office of the Electoral Litigation will remain open during the night from Thursday 1 to Friday 2 December, until the expiry of the deadline. The Executive Board urges all parties, political groups and candidates to file their challenges within the strict deadline.

At Bed West 1 no challenges had yet been recorded as of Thursday evening

Warrant for Yves Pierre Louis

Yves Pierre Louis the Director of "Radio Timoun", which had been convened https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-19343-haiti-justice-the-director-of-radio-timoun-convened-to-the-public-prosecutor-s-office.html for Tuesday, November 29th, at the public prosecutor's office in Port-au-Prince, to explain the threats made on this radio... did not show up and is now under a warrant to bring.

Festival Étonnants voyageur

The de facto President of the Republic, Jocelerme Privert, officially launched Wednesday at the Hotel Marriott the 4th edition of the Festival Étonnants voyageur scheduled for 1, 2 and 3 December 2016. Download the program (PDF) : https://www.haitilibre.com/docs/PROGRAMME_EVhaiti2016.compressed.pdf

See also:

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-19364-haiti-culture-4th-edition-of-the-international-festival-etonnant-voyageurs.html

No possibility for losing candidates

Senator Onondieu Louis asserts that there is no possibility for losing candidates to catch up with Jovenel Moïse, even in the event of a challenge to BCEN. "The unfortunate candidates should preferably work with the next president-elect for the socio-economic development of the country," he said.

A big step towards democracy

Andrys Riché, Senator of Grand'Anse, believes that the publication of the preliminary results of the elections, is a great step towards democracy. According to him, Jovenel Moïse deserves to be placed in first position, because he campaigned in almost the whole country. He also denounces candidates and supporters who call upon violence. He does not see the interest for the candidate (Jude Célestin) arrived second after Jovenel Moïse to challenge the results because of the large gap separating them.

How to build legitimacy to lead ?

Mathias Pierre, close to Pitit Dessalines questions himself "Some figures provoking profound reflections: 1,069,646 voted on 6,189,253 of voting age for 10 million inhabitants and 595,430 to the winner, how to build a legitimacy to lead with 595,430 votes or 9.6% population ie 5.9% of Haitian population; 17.3% of the voters ?

Digital television

The engineer Jean Marie Altema, Director General of the National Council of Telecommunications (CONATEL) met the technical team of the project of realization of the experimental Digital Terrestrial Television (TNT) channel which had to be on-air since last November 15th with the National Radio Television of Haiti (RTNH). https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-18963-haiti-technology-soon-a-digital-tv-pilot-channel.html

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