Pour comprendre la prochaine élection en Haïti, regardez derrière les candidats
To Understand Haiti’s Next Election, Look Behind the Candidates Haiti’s new political coalitions are beginning to reveal who can build a national machine. But an extraordinary imbalance in voter registration could redraw the electoral battlefield before a single ballot is cast. By Patrick Prézeau Stephenson* (Le Français suit) Haitian politics has a numbers problem. There are too many parties to remember, too many acronyms to decipher and too many alliances that seem to materialize just as quickly as they disappear. It is tempting to look at this proliferation and conclude, once again, that Haitian politics is hopelessly fragmented. That conclusion may now be wrong. Beneath the apparent disorder, something consequential is happening. Political organizations that for years competed separately are beginning to assemble into larger coalitions. The Conseil Électoral Provisoire ultimately approved 17 political groupings bringing together 228 parties for the coming electo...