Activation of the joint electoral security cell for the referendum and electoral processes

A CEP press note announcing the activation of the joint electoral security cell, following a strategic meeting held on Monday 14 April 2025 at the Council's premises in Pétion-Ville. The participants named are the Commander-in-Chief of the Haitian Armed Forces, Lieutenant-General Derby Guerrier; the coordinator of the electoral security cell within the Haitian National Police, Inspector General Plonquet Joseph; the commander of the Multinational Security Support Mission, Godfrey Otunge; and a representative of the Directorate General of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security.

They met the nine CEP members together with the Executive Director and the heads of the institution's security directorate and unit, and discussed the country's security environment, electoral security in particular, and the measures needed to create conditions allowing elections to be organized. The meeting concluded with a decision that the joint cell, made up of representatives of all these bodies, would meet the CEP members weekly for a regular update on the security situation and the measures to be adopted for the referendum and electoral processes. This is the earliest document in the CEP's own record showing security coordination being institutionalized rather than improvised.