(2016-09) Order Opening Supplementary Credits for Electoral Activities in the 2015-2016 Budget
Summary — Signed by Provisional President Jocelerme Privert at the National Palace on 12 September 2016, this order opens supplementary budget credits of 797,006,344 gourdes to fund continuing electoral activities after the funds initially allocated in the 2015-2016 budget were exhausted and donors withdrew planned financing. The additional credits, drawn from dividends of modernized public enterprises, autonomous agencies, and the public banking sector, were made subject to subsequent ratification by Parliament.
Key Findings
- Opens 797,006,344 gourdes in supplementary credits for electoral activities after donor financing failed to materialize.
- Cites exhaustion of budget lines originally allocated to the 2015-2016 electoral process.
- Funds sourced from dividends of modernized public enterprises, autonomous bodies, and the public banking sector.
- Credits made explicitly conditional on subsequent parliamentary ratification under the 2015 organic budget decree.
- Signed by Provisional President Jocelerme Privert and the full Council of Ministers on 12 September 2016.
Full Description
This arrêté, issued by Provisional President Jocelerme Privert on the joint report of the Minister of Economy and Finance and the Minister of Planning and External Cooperation, responds to a funding gap in Haiti's electoral process. It recites that the sociopolitical situation following recent elections led donors not to finance planned electoral activities, that budget lines previously allocated to elections were fully consumed, and that the government needed to secure financing to continue the electoral process. Article 2 opens 797,006,344 gourdes (Gdes 797 006 344,00) in supplementary credits on the 'Activités électorales' line of Public Interventions, financed from dividends of modernized public enterprises, autonomous bodies, and the public banking sector not foreseen in the initial 2015-2016 budget.
Article 3 explicitly conditions these credits on ratification by Parliament pursuant to Article 55 of the 9 October 2015 decree on the fundamental rules governing the preparation and adoption of finance laws, reflecting the constitutional requirement that executive supplementary spending ultimately receive legislative sanction. The order was countersigned by the Prime Minister and the full cabinet, dated at the National Palace, Port-au-Prince, 12 September 2016, Year 213 of Independence.