In a note, Me Jean-Henry Céant, Presidential candidate under the banner "Renmen Ayiti" https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-17814-haiti-elections-27-candidates-running-for-the-presidency-list.html explain that "The statement of the Presidency https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-17827-haiti-politic-may-the-best-win-dixit-the-presidency.html comes to confirm the determination of the former provisional president Jocelerme Privert of bring discredit to the presidential institution, the organization of elections and beyond on the entire Haitian Nation.

Having exhausted without success, his mandate of 120 days, today he is, clinging to power, surprised in the pose of a de facto President, distributing to indiscriminately his congratulations, compliments and thanks both to candidates who agreed to participate in the upcoming elections than those who abstained to do it [...]"

Céant stresses, contrary to what Privert said, that in "no case, the confirmation of candidacy of these twenty-seven political figures can not be assimilated to an acceptance of a situation of illegality, unconstitutionality and imposture [...]" adding that Jocelerme Privert, "De facto president, mime the statesman, capable of imposing respect for the rules of the democratic game and ethics, so that during the mandate granted to him, he has posed only of supporters, arbitrary and of clan [...] In a word, Privert has opted to manipulate the electoral process."

HL/ HaitiLibre