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November 7, 2025

How Soon Can Haiti’s Government Hold Elections?

The head of the Haiti’s electoral council announced last month that it will be impossible to hold a national election before the transitional presidential council’s mandate expires in February. Port-au-Prince is pictured. // File Photo: airmaria via Adobe Stock.

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  • Haiti will not be able to hold national elections before the term of the country’s interim government ends in February due to persistent gang violence, the head of Haiti’s electoral council told Reuters on Oct. 22. Many potential voting stations remain inaccessible, said Jacques Desrosiers; criminal groups, which range from local gangs to organized paramilitaries with transnational operations, control nearly 90 percent of the territory of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, according to U.N. estimates. What’s next for Haiti’s provisional government? With a recent influx of private mercenaries and a new, 5,000-person U.N. security force soon to be deployed, under what timeline can Haitian police realistically wrest control of the country from criminal groups? What steps can the international community take in the coming months to meaningfully address Haiti’s political and security crises?

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Mark L. Schneider, former director of the U.S. Peace Corps and former assistant administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID): “Forget elections until gang control over Port-au-Prince has ended and they are being demobilized there and in the countryside. Neither the Haitian National Police nor the Haitian army can achieve those goals alone, or with minimal external help as the Multinational Security Support Mission proved. Security also is crucial to bring humanitarian relief to 5.7 million Haitians who need emergency food. The U.N. Security Council Gang Suppression Force (GSF) Chapter VII resolution authorizing 5,500 troops and a U.N. support office was…”

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