Provisional Electoral Council

So what?  With no electoral timetable and gangs still driving displacement, the pressure to leave Haiti has no political off-ramp, so outflows toward neighboring Caribbean states and the Dominican border are more likely to hold or rise than ease. A dated calendar paired with a security surge would change that read.

So what?  A credible, internationally recognized government emerging from this cycle would open a rare window for restarting formal migration and deportation cooperation with Haiti, but the council's own admission that gang territory is off-limits makes a partial election the likelier outcome, not a fully legitimizing one. Watch whether the council's August-October voter-registration drive actually reaches gang-controlled Port-au-Prince neighborhoods, since a registration process that skips them would foreshadow a vote too incomplete to end the political vacuum driving migration.