Crisis in Haiti delays December elections

Updated 2026-10-07 · told from many outlets at once

Haiti postponed its first election phases indefinitely due to gang violence and political chaos, with over 1.5 million people displaced.

• The Provisional Electoral Council postponed the initial stages of the electoral calendar.
• Haiti has not held elections since 2016.
• The country's gang violence crisis has left at least 5,700 people dead or wounded this year.
• The International Organization for Migration reported that about 1.5 million Haitians were displaced by violence.
• Only 769,000 voters had registered since the process began.
• The UN Security Council approved a six-month extension of the GSF mandate.

Outlets: Diario Libre, El Universo, Estadão, Folha de S.Paulo (Mundo), Free Malaysia Today, Haitian Times, Jamaica Observer, Le Devoir (Quebec), Le Temps, Politiken, france24.com

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