Electoral Decree of 2 June 2026

The electoral decree of the Council of Ministers, published in Le Moniteur, 181st year, Special No. 27, of Tuesday, June 2, 2026. It is issued under the Pacte National pour la Stabilité et l'Organisation des Élections of February 21, 2026 and on the CEP's proposal, and it replaces the decree of December 1, 2025. Beyond the presidential, legislative, territorial-collectivity and indirect elections, it governs a popular ratification of a limited number of changes to the Constitution, which is the mechanism the Pacte substitutes for a full constitutional referendum.

On the electoral administration it is more prescriptive than its predecessors: asset declarations within thirty days of taking office and of leaving it for council members, the Director General, BED and BEC members and electoral judges, with salary payment conditional on filing and the ULCC verifying compliance; quarterly activity reports to the executive and quarterly financial reports to the MEF and the CSCCA, published on the CEP and MEF websites; and a professional administration resting on a reliable register issued through ONI national identification cards, logistics matching the administrative divisions introduced between 2015 and 2021, partial results published within hours of the close of polls, and the integration of Haitians living abroad into the register.

At the coming elections the three senators elected per department receive staggered mandates of six, four and two years according to their vote ranking. A groupement of political parties requires at least ten registered parties and a regroupement at least two groupements. Registration fees rise sharply compared with the 2021 decree, to two million gourdes for the presidency, 800,000 for the Senate and 300,000 for the Chamber. The final title sets out electoral offences, with fines up to twenty million gourdes, forced labor for a fixed term, no provisional release, and loss of civil and political rights for five to ten years, tried by the criminal court sitting without a jury.