Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission, Dr Steve Surujbally will head the Caricom Election Observation Mission to Haiti’s October 25th presidential and legislative elections.
A release from the Caricom Secretariat yesterday said the fielding of this Mission comes at the request of the Government of Haiti and follows the presence of CARICOM Election Observation Missions in St. Kitts and Nevis, Guyana, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.
Fifty-three Presidential candidates will be vying for support from the 5.8 million registered voters.
The second round of the Legislative elections will be a run-off for seats for the Lower House and the Senate in Haiti’s 119 constituencies. The first round on 9 August 2015 saw some 2000 candidates from over 100 political parties vying for these seats.
The team was scheduled to being arriving in Haiti on 21 October and will depart on the 27 and 28 October.
The release said that in view of the vote counting process which requires sending the tally sheets from all the constituencies to a Tabulation Centre in Port-au-Prince, the results of the polls will not be available immediately.
