When will elections be organized to pull the country out of the endless cycle of transition? Neither the Electoral Council nor the government has an answer to that question. While the electoral calendar published last year had scheduled the first round of the presidential and legislative elections for August 30 of this year, today, the CEP and the authorities want to harmonize the National Pact for Stability with the electoral decree before announcing a date for the vote.

If there is no date for the organization of elections, there is also no date for the end of the mandate of this third round of transition led by Alix Didier Fils-Aimé and his allies since February 7. “As we speak, the August 30 date is no longer valid, and we have not yet planned a new date for the elections,” an electoral adviser told Le Nouvelliste on Thursday following a meeting with the Prime Minister.