Haiti to hold elections at year-end if security conditions met: authorities

PORT-AU-PRINCE

- Vehicles that were set on fire by armed gangs sit in the Cite Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, May 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, File)

Haiti’s electoral council has set Dec.13 as the date for the crisis-wracked nation’s first elections in a decade, pending the establishment of an “acceptable security environment.”

The first round of presidential, legislative and local elections would be held on Dec. 13, along with a vote on constitutional changes, according to a decree by the Provisional Electoral Council.