At the end of the period for submitting candidacies for the elections that the National Council of the Transition intends to organize within the framework of the Montana agreement, Fritz Alphonse Jean and Edgard Leblanc Fils are the only two candidates for the presidency, while that Jean Enold Buteau, Steven Benoit, Bonivert Claude, Guirlaine Raymond Charité and Iswick Théophin are the candidates for Prime Minister.
Elections under the Montana Accord will take place on January 30. On the list of candidates for the presidency are the former governor of the central bank and former Prime Minister appointed by President Jocelerme Privert, rejected by the Chamber of Deputies in 2016, Fritz Alphonse Jean, and the former President of the Senate for the period from 1995-2000, ex-candidate for the presidency in the second-degree elections to Parliament in 2016, general coordinator of the OPL, Edgard Leblanc Fils”, the Office for monitoring the agreement in charge of the agreement told Le Nouvelliste on Wednesday. to receive applications.
Five other personalities have submitted their documents as candidates for the Primature. They are Jean Enold Buteau, Steven Benoit, Bonivert Claude, Guirlaine Raymond Charité and Iswick Théophin.
The Montana accord will elect a president who will be part of the five-member presidential college according to the Montana-PEN political consensus and a prime minister.
“Dear compatriots! I have the honor to announce that I have submitted to the BSA of Montana my candidacy for the post of Prime Minister of the Transition. Let’s work together for Haiti by supporting the National Transitional Council (CNT). Haiti, first, now and always! “wrote Steven Benoît on his Twitter account.
According to the electoral calendar established by the National Transitional Council, this January 20 is reserved for the publication of the provisional list of candidates approved by the CNT. Those who have objections can file them on January 21. The final list of candidates will be published on January 24 at the same time as the launch of the electoral campaign in the media. There will even be public debates with the candidates on January 27 and 28.
The elections to the CNT will take place on January 30, the electoral commission will publish the final results on January 31.
According to the president of the electoral commission within the CNT, the engineer Armand Louis, the candidates who win the greatest number of votes among the 44 members of the CNT will be elected. “The elections will take place with a show of hands to see who voted for whom. There will be only one round, ”he explained to the Nouvelliste.
Separately, Prime Minister Ariel Henry this week blamed members of the Montana Accord for not wanting to continue the rounds of talks, he said.
“I must tell the Haitian people that the gap between the date of the signing of the agreement and its publication is due simply to the fact that I wanted to meet, beforehand, our compatriots from the Montana group whom I did not despair of convincing to join the first signatories. It was a necessity in order to broaden the consensus and put our democracy back on track in the framework of free, fair and inclusive elections,” said the head of government.
Ariel Henry said that the members of the Montana accord “did not wish to continue the dialogue. On two other occasions, I took the initiative to go to them and asked to meet them again, always without success, alas”.
James Beltis, president of the CNT, pointed out that the members of the Montana accord have already held two meetings with Prime Minister Ariel Henry. He acknowledged that the discussions with the head of the Primature were indeed Haitian. “But it doesn’t depend on the Montana deal. It depends on an agreement found for the transmission of documents. Montana is still awaiting a roadmap for discussions from Dr. Ariel Henry,” he said.
As if to say that initiatives to put a president in the National Palace are doomed to failure, the Prime Minister said last Monday: “The next tenant of the National Palace will be a president elected freely and democratically by the majority of the Haitian people… »