By Robenson Geffrard, Le Nouvelliste, Oct. 23, 2026
Since the launch of the registration process for the 30,000 members of political organizations on August 20 on the CEP's digital platform, only 36 out of 105 accredited organizations have been able to meet this requirement of the electoral decree.
More than two months after the launch of the registration process for the 30,000 members of political organizations, it remains complicated, if not impossible, for most accredited political structures to reach this number. While the CEP has not yet communicated on the political organizations that have used fraudulent means to register their 30,000 members, it has pointed out that there have been over 27 million attempts at fraud in these operations.
As of Friday, October 23, Le Nouvelliste noted on the CEP's online platform that 36 accredited political structures, comprising 23 parties and 13 political groups, have submitted the list of their 30,000 members, adherents or supporters. They are the only ones authorized to designate candidates.
These 36 political organizations and others that have not yet reached the threshold of 30,000 members have recorded a total of 1,309,530 adherents on the CEP's platform.
However, 16,007,339 members submitted by political organizations were rejected due to data discrepancies, either because the name did not match the card number, or due to gender or other issues.
5,351,165 of the submitted data indicated duplicates; for this reason, they were rejected by the CEP system. These are member numbers already entered into the system by a political organization while other parties or political groupings attempted to use the same data.
5,892,669 adherent members of political organizations were rejected because the submitted NINUs were incorrect as the political structures attempted to create their own NINUs in order to meet the 30,000 members required by the electoral decree.
This brings the total attempts of fraud in the registration of members by political organizations to over 27 million. All of these were rejected by the CEP system.
The electoral decree provides for no sanctions or prosecutions against political organizations that may have committed fraud or attempted to commit fraud during the registration process of the 30,000 members. However, we noted that Article 366 of the decree states: “Anyone who uses, manufactures or causes to be manufactured false national identification cards, election process observation cards, or proxy cards shall be punished with hard labor for life and a fine of one million (1,000,000.00) to five million (5,000,000.00) gourdes.”
Furthermore, since the launch of the voter registration process on July 20 and until the closing of the offices on Friday, October 23, 878,226 eligible voters have registered in the electoral register. They are currently the only ones authorized to vote in the elections. The electoral decree is clear in its Article 59.1: “Registration is mandatory for the exercise of the right to vote.”
Regarding candidate registration, the CEP platform reported 17 presidential candidacies, 331 for the Senate, 1,182 for deputy positions, 1,412 for municipal councils, 1,842 for CASEC, and 1,153 for ASEC as of Friday, October 23.
At the moment, there is still no date for the elections to be held. The previously set date of December 13 for the first round of voting seems technically uncertain. The electoral council has begun a series of meetings since last week with the government, public security officials, foreign partners, political actors, and civil society on a new version of the electoral calendar.
Posted Oct. 27, 2026