Haiti abandons costly effort to replace 1987 Constitution

Haiti’s Presidential Transitional Council (CPT) and government have decided to abandon the plan to replace the 1987 Constitution, dissolving the Steering Committee for the National Conference and Constitutional Referendum during a Council of Ministers meeting. The move on Oct. 9 ends more than a year of consultations, public forums and political debates that cost millions of gourdes. It comes just four months before the CPT’s mandate expires on Feb. 7, 2026, and follows growing criticism over the plan’s illegality and illegitimacy, financial waste, corruption, political distractions and the lack of progress on the country’s most urgent priorities — security, humanitarian relief, healthcare and elections. “It came out of the Council of Ministers: there will be no referendum,” Jacques Ambroise, spokesperson for the CPT, said on Télé Métropole. “We will organize the elections under the 1987 Constitution, despite all the problems we know it contains.”
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