Haïti peut‑elle encore voter ? Et si la vraie surprise venait des outsiders ?
Can Haiti still vote? What if the real surprise came from the outsiders? By Patrick Prézeau Stephenson (Le Français suit) PORT‑AU‑PRINCE, HAITI — The air in Port‑au‑Prince feels heavy with anticipation, though not the kind that precedes a celebration. Haiti’s long‑delayed elections, once imagined as a turning point toward stability, now hover between possibility and paralysis. The provisional electoral council’s latest bulletin lists eleven presidential hopefuls, among them Jean Ernest Muscadin — a name that, until recently, belonged more to the country’s security headlines than to its political calculus. A vote that may or may not come The government’s own barometer of feasibility sits at 19 out of 100 , a figure that officials themselves classify as “impossible.” The United Nations resolution extending the mandate of the multinational force until March 2027 pointedly avoids assigning it any electoral duties. In other words, the machinery of voting exists mostly on pap...