Haiti's government on Wednesday created a provisional electoral council, marking the most concrete step toward reviving the electoral process in years after political turmoil and later violence thwarted previous attempts.

A previous electoral council had been dissolved in 2021 under Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who took office after Moise’s death but was forced out of his post earlier this year after he left the country to seek support for an international security mission and was unable to re-enter Haiti.

Haiti’s government on Wednesday created a provisional electoral council long sought by the international community to prepare the troubled Caribbean country for its first general elections since 2016.

Haiti's government on Wednesday created a provisional electoral council, an initial step needed to hold the Caribbean nation's first general elections since 2016. Haiti's transitional presidential council - a separate body which has been acting as the government since it was installed in April - established the electoral council in a meeting,