The CEP assesses electoral infrastructure and its deconcentrated structures

A CEP press note reporting that Council members, accompanied by technical teams, are assessing the institution's deconcentrated structures and electoral infrastructure in the Nord, Nord-Est, Centre and Haut-Artibonite departments, in a first series of missions running from 6 to 11 December 2024. On the ground the councillors took an inventory of the departmental and communal electoral bureaux and assessed the physical state of the buildings, the equipment available and what would be needed to make those structures work. The stated purpose of the data collected is to guide the Council's budget forecasts and its decisions on strengthening the deconcentrated structures so they can carry out their mission in each region. The Council also states that it plans to revitalise BED and BEC staff with a view to the referendum and general elections. The note matters because the state of that infrastructure, and the absence of the State in gang-held communes, became the precondition the CEP invoked a year later for executing any electoral calendar. It is dated Gonaïves, 8 December 2024.