2026-02-26
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Haiti's last electoral cycle in 2015-2016 was marred by fraud allegations that led to the annulment of
the first round and the eventual election of Jovenel Moise in 2017. The subsequent collapse of the
parliament in January 2020 left Moise governing by decree until his assassination, eliminating the
institutional infrastructure that any credible 2026 election must reconstruct from near-zero capacity.