[4] The party abbreviation, LAPEH, is pronounced like the Haitian Creole word "lapé", meaning "peace", from French "la paix".

[5][6] At the time the allegations were made, Célestin had come in second place in the first round of elections, behind Mirlande Manigat and before Michel Martelly.

[6] After Célestin was forced to withdraw, Martelly qualified for the runoff election against Manigat instead, and eventually won the presidency.

In a paper for the Center for Economic and Policy Research, economist David Rosnick claimed that the allegations against Célestin did not have a statistically valid basis and that the forced withdrawal amounted to election engineering.

[8] Célestin alleged that president Michel Martelly was influencing the Conseil Électoral Provisoire (CEP), Haiti's election authority, in favor of his chosen candidate, Jovenel Moïse.