The constitutional referendum is not taking place this May 11, 2025, Me André speaks of CPT's failure
By La Rédaction · Port-au-Prince
· 2 min read · Updated 24 April 2026
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The constitutional referendum launched by the Provisional Electoral Council did not take place this Sunday, May 11, 2025, contrary to what was announced by the Transitional Presidential Council. Neither the PEC nor the PEC made an official statement to postpone the event. No one came to explain this decision to us. The population can only observe this state of affairs. Time plays out in the Haitian calendar. It passes. Surely. Slowly! Sometimes quickly, even too quickly. Political time does not align in Haiti. Very often it fails our leaders, to the point of engulfing them. They never take the time. But when the clock starts ticking, time accelerates, all by itself. And at that moment, with haste, they make decisions, in a rush. To our misfortune and for the worse.
This Sunday, May 11, 2025, Me André Michel reacted on his X account to this unsurprising obviousness. The person responsible for the December 21 agreement strongly criticizes the electoral council, which has put nothing in place to carry out the constitutional referendum, despite it already being launched. For Me Michel, nothing has been done, not even the referendum text on which the people should vote.
“The referendum, announced for this May 11, 2025, by the CPT, is not taking place. It was never even intended to be held. The text on which citizens were supposed to vote does not exist,” wrote the lawyer, who firmly believes that there will be no elections in the country with this government and that nothing should be expected from the presidential council.
“There will be no elections either,” he insists. The spokesperson for the democratic and popular sector, who called himself “Avoka pèp la” (People's Lawyer), did not mince words. “The CPT has failed,” he declared. He believes that at this crossroads where Haiti finds itself, political action is necessary to bring forth a political and security alternative for the country. Furthermore, Mr. Michel highlighted the degrading situation in which the country lives, where many families flee their homes, and citizens die from gunshots throughout the day. Meanwhile, members of the Transitional Presidential Council and the government continue to enjoy their privileges. “To the deteriorating security and humanitarian situation are added revelations concerning salaries, privileges, and special favors for our leaders, which undermine the morale of our law enforcement, destabilize our fellow citizens, overwhelmed by the general situation of the country, further humiliate our diaspora, persecuted here and there, and stir international emotion. The CPT is conscientiously digging mass graves for 13,000,000 Haitians,” concluded Mr. André Michel.
“There will be no elections either,” he insists. The spokesperson for the democratic and popular sector, who called himself “Avoka pèp la” (People's Lawyer), did not mince words. “The CPT has failed,” he declared. He believes that at this crossroads where Haiti finds itself, political action is necessary to bring forth a political and security alternative for the country. Furthermore, Mr. Michel highlighted the degrading situation in which the country lives, where many families flee their homes, and citizens die from gunshots throughout the day. Meanwhile, members of the Transitional Presidential Council and the government continue to enjoy their privileges. “To the deteriorating security and humanitarian situation are added revelations concerning salaries, privileges, and special favors for our leaders, which undermine the morale of our law enforcement, destabilize our fellow citizens, overwhelmed by the general situation of the country, further humiliate our diaspora, persecuted here and there, and stir international emotion. The CPT is conscientiously digging mass graves for 13,000,000 Haitians,” concluded Mr. André Michel.
