The candidates, parties, and power-brokers of Haiti's 2026 presidential cycle — the first national vote since 2016. Sourced and updated as the field takes shape.
CEP / feasibility: 1st round 13 Dec 2026; 2nd round 21 Feb 2027; inauguration ~12 Mar 2027. Registration 20 Aug-2 Oct 2026 (online closes 3 Sep, docs 9 Sep). CEP preliminary candidate list 17 Sep, final list 2 Oct; campaign opens 5 Oct (69 days). 30,000-supporter threshold per party; 105 approved entities (88 parties + 17 groupings). No CEP-validated candidate list yet.
Provisional — status per figure. Only declared candidacies are on the record; the rest are credibly-reported likely or potential standard-bearers pending the CEP list.
Human-rights lawyer and SDP spokesman. The only figure on clear public record as a declared candidate (announced 27 Jul 2025).
Platform: Anti-gang, anti-negotiation; dialogue to save the electoral process.
AYITI INTEL assessment: the sole firm declaration so far; declared hours after the US blocked his Miami flight / revoked his visa.
Former Prime Minister (2021) and EDE leader; his party is among those cleared for the vote.
AYITI INTEL assessment: an organized party and a national profile make him a likely standard-bearer; not yet formally declared.
Economist, former BRH (central bank) governor, and ex-CPT rotating president (Mar-Aug 2025); associated with the Montana Accord.
AYITI INTEL assessment: the technocratic 'consensus' figure repeatedly floated; no formal 2026 declaration. NOTE: labeled 'TPC president' in some coverage is stale — the CPT dissolved 7 Feb 2026.
LAPEH leader; presidential runner-up in 2010 and 2015 with a real electoral machine.
AYITI INTEL assessment: a serious contender with coalition-building history if he runs.
Architect and veteran Fanmi Lavalas figure; 2010/2015 presidential candidate. Reported as Fanmi Lavalas's designated standard-bearer for 2026.
AYITI INTEL assessment: carries the most historically potent brand; Jean-Bertrand Aristide remains the kingmaker behind the FL ticket.
Firebrand populist and PPD leader; former senator with strong grassroots mobilization.
AYITI INTEL assessment: one of the highest-mobilization grassroots leaders; a 2026 filing is likely but not yet confirmed.
Founder and leader of the Peasant Movement of Papaye (MPP), a major rural civil-society organization.
AYITI INTEL assessment: a peasant-movement figure mentioned as a candidate; medium confidence.
Former Prime Minister (2012-2014); businessman.
AYITI INTEL assessment: mentioned as a potential candidate (Radio Métropole); medium confidence, unconfirmed.
Physician and political figure; ex-CPT member; leads the Accord 21 Décembre grouping.
AYITI INTEL assessment: a transitional-insider grouping leader; candidacy floated, unconfirmed.
Minister of Defense and former Director General of the PNH (national police); a career security figure.
AYITI INTEL assessment: named in media as a potential candidate while serving as Defense Minister — a dual role to watch; medium confidence.
Former rebel leader and ex-police officer; convicted of money laundering in the US (imprisoned 2017-2023) and deported to Haiti.
AYITI INTEL assessment: says he will run and that his conviction won't stop him, but the 2026 decree's conviction/décharge clauses make him the clearest eligibility casualty.
Figures who shape the race — party heads, the transitional executive and electoral authority, financiers, and armed-group actors whose posture bears on whether the vote happens.
Final rotating president of the CPT (to 7 Feb 2026); business-sector figure who handed executive power to PM Fils-Aimé.
AYITI INTEL assessment: a wealthy private-sector figure and possible future candidate; no 2026 declaration.
Senior Fanmi Lavalas figure and the party's 2015 presidential candidate.
AYITI INTEL assessment: a party figure/coordinator; FL's 2026 standard-bearer is reported to be Lesly Voltaire.
OPL leader and ex-CPT rotating president; heads an approved legacy party.
AYITI INTEL assessment: carries transitional-insider weight and a functioning party structure.
Notary and former Prime Minister (2018-2019); leads the Renmen Ayiti party.
AYITI INTEL assessment: a standing organization and ex-PM profile; Canada-sanctioned (2022).
President of PHTK (Martelly's party). PHTK is NOT among the parties approved for the 2026 vote.
AYITI INTEL assessment: leads a former ruling party now effectively sidelined from the 2026 field — a major bloc's absence reshapes the race.
AAA leader and former Senate president; a veteran power-broker.
AYITI INTEL assessment: master patronage operator; his US+Canada sanctions (for alleged corruption/gang links) are a reputational and eligibility cloud, though bilateral sanctions do not auto-bar a candidacy.
Prime Minister and — since the Transitional Presidential Council dissolved 7 Feb 2026 — sole head of Haiti's executive under the Feb 2026 National Pact. Businessman.
AYITI INTEL assessment: the pivotal gatekeeper. Whether the vote is held on the 13 Dec schedule turns more on his government than on any candidate.
Patriarch of the GB Group and reputedly Haiti's wealthiest businessman.
AYITI INTEL assessment: the apex private-sector financier whose posture shapes any transition. Canada sanctioned him for allegedly enabling armed groups (an allegation he denies).
President of the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP), which runs the 2026 vote.
AYITI INTEL assessment: has publicly conditioned a credible vote on the state retaking ~20 gang-held communes — a bar current security conditions make hard to clear.
Founder of Fanmi Lavalas and twice former president (ousted 1991 and 2004). Remains the movement's figurehead.
AYITI INTEL assessment: the kingmaker behind the FL ticket; his posture shapes the single most potent political brand.
Former president of the Senate; a long-standing patronage operator.
AYITI INTEL assessment: an enduring Senate/patronage broker who can broker or block alignments; US+Canada sanctioned.
Former president (2011-2016) and PHTK founder; musician.
AYITI INTEL assessment: still a kingmaker despite PHTK's exclusion. US Treasury sanctioned him 20 Aug 2024 for alleged drug trafficking, money laundering and gang sponsorship (also Canada) — serious allegations underpinning the sanctions.
Businessman and MTV Ayiti founder.
AYITI INTEL assessment: arrested by US ICE on 17 Jul 2025 over alleged Viv Ansanm support and faces deportation — Washington treats him as a destabilizer (allegations, not adjudicated).
Leader of the Viv Ansanm armed-group coalition (former police officer). UN- and US-sanctioned; US-indicted (Jul 2025) with a $5M reward; Viv Ansanm designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
AYITI INTEL assessment: the armed actor who can veto the vote by force; UNSC sanctions constitutionally bar any candidacy he has mused about.
Leader of the Kraze Baryè armed group; controls key eastern Port-au-Prince approaches. On the FBI Ten Most Wanted list ($2M reward); UN- and Canada-sanctioned.
AYITI INTEL assessment: a top armed power-broker over strategic PAP terrain; UNSC sanctions bar any candidacy.