GettyMore than half a million Haitians have been displaced by gang violence, many of them women and childrenHaiti’s government has taken a key step towards holding long-delayed elections with the creation of a body which will oversee the polls.The nine-member provisional electoral council – set up on Wednesday – has been tasked with organising elections by February 2026. The last time Haitians voted someone into power was in 2016.Since then, armed gangs have seized control of almost the entire capital, Port-au-Prince, as well as large swathes of rural areas of Haiti.So far, seven members of the provisional electoral council (CEP) have been named. Among them are representatives of the media, academia, trade unions, and religious groups. The creation of the CEP comes less than two weeks after a visit to Port-au-Prince by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who had urged Haiti’s provisional government to move forward with the electoral process.Blinken said setting up an electoral…
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