Haiti's PM says security situation makes August election unlikely

Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime told Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste on May 11 that security conditions in Port-au-Prince do not permit the August 30 first-round election. “It is clear that the security conditions are not met at the level for us to have elections in August,” he said, with gang clashes still forcing hospital evacuations and displacing hundreds in the capital.

The first round was already a delayed schedule — the Provisional Electoral Council originally targeted November 2025, then pushed to August 30 and December 6, 2026, after the Transitional Presidential Council’s mandate expired in February.

For the diaspora, this is the second postponement in eight months. Absentee-voting frameworks built around the August date now realistically rebudget for late Q4 or 2027. About 300 political parties and groups had registered for the August round per UN reporting in March.