282 partis, zéro crédibilité : pourquoi le chaos électoral haïtien exige un recadrage radical
282 Parties, Zero Credibility: Why Haiti's Electoral Free-for-All Demands a Radical Reckoning By Patrick Prézeau Stephenson * (Le Français suit) A fractured political landscape doesn't signal democracy — it signals its absence. Haiti needs a strong electoral law that forces consolidation, not a carnival of acronyms. PORT-AU-PRINCE — There is a number that should haunt anyone who genuinely cares about Haitian democracy: 282 . That is how many political parties and coalitions Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council, the CEP, has approved to contest the country's upcoming elections — the first in over a decade. Another 38 are still waiting in the wings. Three hundred and twenty groups registered in a ten-day sprint. Let that breathe for a moment. In a nation of roughly 11.5 million people — where over 1.4 million are internally displaced, where armed groups control arterial highways and entire neighborhoods of the capital, where most citizens have lost the...