2025-12-31

Haiti's political history includes multiple instances of leaders extending their mandates beyond constitutional limits. President Michel Martelly governed without a parliament from January 2015 to January 2016 after failing to hold legislative elections. President Jovenel Moise ruled by decree from January 2020 until his July 2021 assassination after parliamentary terms expired. The CPT was established specifically to avoid repeating this pattern by creating a fixed transitional timeline with international oversight, making the current extension allegations particularly significant as evidence of systemic governance failure.