The former senator from the South, Jean-Marie Junior Salomon, is a candidate for the highest office in the state. A former vice-president of the Senate, Salomon is among the 26 candidates registered on the online platform of the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) as of November 12, 2026, three days before the registration deadline. For the 2017 elections, the former parliamentarian will represent the Organization of People in Struggle (OPL).

The presidential candidate structures his project around national reconciliation. He describes a country imprisoned by divisions, destructive rivalries, and private interests, and a people exhausted by insecurity, injustice, poverty, unemployment, exclusion, and political instability.