Decree amending the Electoral Decree of 2 June 2026 (Le Moniteur, Special No. 34)

The decree of July 2, 2026 amending the electoral decree of June 2, 2026, published in Le Moniteur, 181st year, Special No. 34. It makes thirteen targeted changes and does not reopen the decree. Reporting deadlines under article 12 move from fifteen working days to thirty days. Two accountability provisions are repealed: article 14.5, which barred an absent member from reopening a decision of the Board of Directors, and point 3 of article 14.8, which treated an inability to take the decisions needed to run the CEP or execute the electoral calendar as grounds for finding the Board unable to function.

The record of Board meetings becomes a procès-verbal instead of a compte-rendu. The quotas at articles 22 and 27 are restated as at least thirty percent for women, with a preference for a qualified candidate with a disability at equal competence, replacing the earlier fixed disability quota. Article 133 is rewritten so the CEP verifies party membership lists for duplicates and valid NINUs, transmits the validated list to the MJSP and publishes on its site the list of parties, groupements and regroupements entitled to present candidates.

Candidacy documents are tightened at article 153, including a sworn attestation before a notary of not having been convicted or detained in Haiti or abroad for economic offences, sexual violence, illicit arms or drug trafficking, or kidnapping. A new article 235.1 requires the voting-bureau secretary to record the voter's NINU on the signature list and take a signature or fingerprint. Article 250 is rewritten to distribute the count record as one original and five legible duplicates, two of them to the agents of the first- and second-placed candidates, with a draw settling ties for the last copy.