Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council has set Nov. 7, as the new date to hold the first round of elections for president, the legislature and a controversial constitutional referendum. The second round of presidential and legislative elections is scheduled for January 23, 2022 — the same date as municipal and local elections, which have also been delayed for years.

Haiti currently has no president, following the killing of President Jovenel Moïse in a gruesome attack July 7, nor functioning parliament — only a handful of elected senators. Before he was killed,  Moïse had been ruling by decree and fought calls to resign over the last three years.

Moïse appointed the Electoral Council last September, but its members were not sworn in as required in article 289 of the Haitian Constitution. 

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