Haiti electoral council fires executive director amid dispute with PM over elections

In this file photo, a woman casts her ballot at a polling station at the Canape Vert market, in the Haitian Capital of Port-au-Prince, on Jan. 29, 2017, during local and legislative elections. HECTOR RETAMAL AFP via Getty Images

By Jacqueline Charles

Haiti still does not have a date for its first general elections in a decade. But the process is already mired in controversy, raising the prospect of a new electoral crisis.

On Wednesday, the country’s Provisional Electoral Council issued a document barring its executive director, Uder Antoine, from entering the premises in Pétion-Ville. The representative of the Catholic Church on the council, Patrick Saint-Hilaire, was the only one of its nine members not to sign the document.

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