EDE Denounces Referendum Failure and Calls for CPT Resignation
By La Rédaction · Port-au-Prince
· 1 min read · Updated 24 April 2026
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The Engaged for Development (EDE) party notes, without surprise, the non-holding of the constitutional referendum initially announced for Sunday, May 11, 2025, by the former coordinator of the Presidential Transitional Council (CPT), Leslie Voltaire. In a statement signed by its Secretary-General, Mr. Claude Édouard, the party recalls having, for several months, alerted to the impossibility of organizing such a referendum in a climate of generalized insecurity.
EDE deplores the CPT's failure to keep its commitments, as well as the government's silence regarding this unfulfilled promise. Faced with this situation, the party calls on the population to peacefully take to the streets to unconditionally demand the resignation of the CPT.
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