2025-12-11

Haiti has not held national elections since 2016. The last presidential election occurred in November 2016, electing Jovenel Moïse who was inaugurated in February 2017. Moïse was assassinated in July 2021. The Transitional Presidential Council was established in April 2024 through the CARICOM-brokered political agreement, with a mandate explicitly tied to organizing elections before February 7, 2026. The CEP was reconstituted in September 2024 after years of dysfunction. Throughout this period, electoral calendar announcements have been repeatedly delayed, revised, and contradicted, creating a pattern of institutional unreliability that this latest discrepancy reinforces.