CEP/DC/053-2526: Working session with Canadian senator Suze Youance on diaspora participation
- Working session with Suze Youance, a senator of Canada of Haitian origin.
- The CEP delegation was Peterson Pierre-Louis, Nemrod Sanon and Schnaïda Adély, with Haiti's chargée d'affaires in Ottawa, Françoise Suzan.
- The talks covered registration mechanisms and the arrangements for organizing a vote abroad.
- The Council states it will keep consulting friendly governments, Haitian diplomatic posts and diaspora associations.
The session forms part of the CEP's effort to open the electoral process to Haitians living abroad. The delegation of Secretary-General Peterson Pierre-Louis, Treasurer Nemrod Sanon and Councillor Schnaïda Adély met Senator Suze Youance, accompanied by Haiti's chargée d'affaires in Ottawa, Françoise Suzan.
The discussion covered the registration mechanisms, the arrangements for organizing a vote abroad, and the institutional, technical and logistical provisions such an operation would require. The delegation presented the CEP's directions on widening citizen participation and argued for examining, with the partners concerned, the conditions that would let Haitians outside the country take part.
Senator Youance, who is of Haitian origin, shared observations drawn from her experience in Canada and her work within the Haitian community. The note records that the session also underlined the value of dialogue between Haitian and Canadian institutions on democracy, elections and citizen participation, and that the Council intends to continue consulting friendly governments, Haitian diplomatic and consular posts, diaspora associations and other partners.
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Conseil Électoral Provisoire (CEP), 2026, CEP/DC/053-2526: Working session with Canadian senator Suze Youance on diaspora participation, https://cephaiti.ht/seance-de-travail-avec-la-senatrice-canadienne-suze-youance-autour-de-la-participation-de-la-diaspora-haitienne-aux-prochaines-elections-en-haiti/
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