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Close to 200 Political parties registered for election in 2015 Haiti Election

Close to 200 Political parties registered for election in 2015 Haiti Election

Registered Parties for Election need CEP Approval

By midnight on March 20, 2015 registration ended for parties wanting to participate in general elections. The Annex Electoral Council (CEP) recorded 187 well-known and anonymous political groups.

Radical group Pitit Desalin was registered by ex-Senator Jean-Charles. The Patriotic Movement for Democratic Opposition was registered by its founder Mirlande Manigat.

All registered parties must be verified by CEP on the basis of required documentation. Those approved will be officially sanctioned for participation in the elections.

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Edgard Leblanc Fils, former coordinator of the OPL

Edgard Leblanc Fils, former coordinator of the OPL

Here is a picture of Edgard Leblanc Fils, former coordinator of the OPL.

Out of the 13 candidates who vied to become the next interim president, late on Friday 12, 2016, the list was shortened by a bicameral commission in parliament to '3'-- (i) Senator Dejean Bélizaire, former head of the National Assembly; (ii) Senate President Edgard Fils Leblanc and; (iii) Senate chief Jocelerme Privert. At least nine of the candidates had deposited the required filing fees ($8,414) for this 120 day temporary job. The money deposited was intended to be transferred to the State University of Haiti account. However, the members OPL (Struggling People's Organization) of which Edgard Leblanc Fils is a former coordinator, was divided over the candidacy of Edgard Leblanc Fils. They did not support his candidacy as they are equally opposed to the Privert's candidacy and his following success. The OPL Coordinator Sauveur Pierre Etienne has said that starting with a separation of powers, a lot of principles have been violated by this accord. Privert had played a leading role in making the accord and he is now taking benefit from it.

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Member of Political Party Tèt Kale

Member of Political Party Tèt Kale

Here is a member of the Political Party Tèt Kale(PHTK) of center right.

A new political organization, Haitian Party Tet Kale (PHTK), has been legally sanctioned to function within the electoral process. Already it has gained interest among political parties Konbit Sides, Ayiti An Aksyon, and President Martelly's Pati Politik Peyizan.

Chief of Staff Anne Milford has been chosen to head PHTK and Minister for Women, Yanick Mézile will lend her ministry's support. There are 5,000 PHTK members throughout the country.

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Bouclier accused of disrupting Haiti parliamentary elections

Bouclier accused of disrupting Haiti parliamentary elections

The political party close to the executive branch of government, Bouclier, is accused for the disruption of the first round of parliamentary elections August 9, 2015 in Haiti.

Opposition wants Cancellation of Parliamentary Elections in First Round

Two political parties, Rasin kan PEP and Struggling People's Organization, have called upon the Provisional Electoral Council to investigate disruptions and violence at the polls during Parliamentary elections.

Both parties assert PHTK, Shield, Ayiti, and other opposition parties perpetrated acts of violence, vandalism, and looting.

International observers like the EU and OAS say irregularities at the polls don't rise to the level that a need for canceling the first round of elections is necessary.

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Edmonde Supplice Beauzile Running For The Presidency Of Haiti

Edmonde Supplice Beauzile Running For The Presidency Of Haiti

As per a report dated March 30, 2015, the former Senator Edmonde Supplice Beauzile and the President of the Fusion of Social Democrats has expressed her willingness to represent her party in the next presidential elections and has announced her candidacy for the nomination of Fusion. The list of other candidates from Fusion des Socio-démocrates will be decided during its 10th anniversary celebration between April 22 and 25 or during a conference scheduled to be held in May 11 to 20, 2015. She has welcomed the progressive efforts made by the electoral council, especially in reevaluating the Departmental and Communal Electoral Offices (BEDs and BECs). She has demanded some changes at the BED of the Centre Department, who are responsible to organize, manage and monitor the electoral process and to solve procedural challenges presented by political parties in a timely manner.

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Popular Patriotic Dessalinien Movement (MOPOD)

Popular Patriotic Dessalinien Movement (MOPOD)

Here is a picture of the sign for the Political Party Popular Patriotic Dessalinien Movement (MOPOD).

Recently, on March 25, 2015, the Popular Patriotic Dessalinien Movement (MOPOD), has announced two of its important nominations for the upcoming election-- Samuel Madistin & Mirlande H. Manigat. Mr.Madistin is a lawyer who has always as remained active against all human rights abuses. He has clarified his decision to join the MOPOD in a "944 word descriptive open letter". Former First Lady Manigat (between February 7, 1988 - June 20, 1988) endorsed her intention for nomination as "program and ideology of MOPOD is not about slogans, it is about real programs." MOPOD was initially a political coalition that recently, on March 26, 2015 has turned into a political party based on a shared ideology. The coalition has changed its earlier name 'the Patriotic Movement of the Democratic Opposition' but maintains the same acronym MOPOD.

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Evans Paul proudly wearing the Tet Kale colors Pink and White

Evans Paul proudly wearing the Tet Kale colors Pink and White

Has Evans Paul converted to the Tet Kale political party? If not, he is surely demonstrating his support by proudly wearing their official color Pink and White (Rose et Blanc)

During the inauguration of the Place St Anne, Evans Paul sent the message to everyone that he has totally integrated the Tet kale Political Party

Here is a picture Prime Minister Evans Paul as he was wearing the colors of Tet Kale Political party of Michel Martelly

Also known as K-plume (KP), Evans Paul is a Haitian politician who at one point was the president of the Democratic United Committee (Komite inite Demokratik, KID). On December 25 2014, he was nominated by President Michel Martelly to become Haiti Prime Minister

Over the years, Michel Martelly has recruited many people for his social movement, Rose et Blanc, a family initiative which led to the creation in September 2008, the "Rose and White Foundation. During his campaign for the presidency, he kept the slogan "Tet kale! with the foundation color Pink and White Foundation (Fondation Rose et Blanc)

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Michel Martelly Meeting FUSION, Kontra Pèp, INITE, Ayisyen pou Ayiti

Michel Martelly Meeting FUSION, Kontra Pèp, INITE, Ayisyen pou Ayiti

Here is a picture where Michel Martelly Meeting was meeting with leaders of FUSION, Kontra Pèp, INITE and Ayisyen pou Ayiti at Hotel Kinam

On December 17, 2014, the Haitian President Michele Martelly held a meeting with the opposition leaders to find a way out to avoid the impending political crisis to which the country is heading in the absence of a long overdue legislative election. Haiti was supposed to hold this election in October 2011 for a majority of Senate seats, the entire Chamber of Deputies and local offices and such failure has continued to foster political uncertainty and had deterred the right to political participation. One third of the Senate seats have become vacant in last October and the fate of another one third has become uncertain because of some conflicting interpretations of a 2008 electoral law by the political parties. In a consequence, out of 140 elected posts in the municipalities, 129 posts have expired in October 2011. The Martelly administration had filled these posts with political appointees in 2012. President Martelly, under the pressure of the United Nations and other international actors convoked a special session of Parliament on November 22 to prepare a draft electoral law for regulating the overdue elections but that has remained unsuccessful.

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Tet Kale Slogan transformed to Kale Tet by opposition

Tet Kale Slogan transformed to Kale Tet by opposition

The government of Michel Martelly is not appreciative of the fact that many in the opposition is now referring to his government as a government of Kale Tet. This is not what it was intended to be.

Originally, Michel Martelly had the slogan Tet Kale that worked very well for him. It worked so well that he decided to form a new Political party under the name Tet Kale.

However, as the opposition is getting stronger and more vocal, they managed to transform is slogan to Kale Tet, an name not very flattering in the Haitian Creole.

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Political Parties reacted after being insulted by Michel Martelly

Political Parties reacted after being insulted by Michel Martelly

The Patriotic Democratic Movement (MOPOD) has announced that it would not be taking part in the August 14, 2013 meeting put on by President Michel Martelly at the Karibe Convention Center. MOPOD's speaker, former Senator Turneb Delpe stated that this snub was in response to the President's insult to the political parties during a restaurant visit and Hotel Karibe meeting in August of 2012. He further states that the parties take great offense to Martelly's injunction of the electoral law of 2008.

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