\ PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Michel Martelly, the presidential candidate whose partisans have fiercely protested election results they consider rigged, said in an interview on Friday that he had rejected an offer to participate in a runoff election as a third candidate. “This would be like fraud to be in a second round by invitation,” he …
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AS ELECTIONS DERAIL: U.S. AND UN AT ODDS WITH THE “INDISPENSABLE” PRÉVAL: “ by Kim Ives ‘Managing [President René] Préval will remain challenging during the remainder of his term yet doing so is key to our success and that of Haiti,’ wrote then U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Janet Sanderson in a Jun. 16, 2009 confidential …
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Haiti’s sham election shames US | Mark Weisbrot: ” Washington cannot confer legitimacy on this flawed election that does nothing for Haitians living under tarps, menaced by cholera The election in Haiti shows, once again, how low Washington’s standards are for democracy in countries that they want to control politically. And there is no doubt …
• Provisional date of 16 January set for decisive contest • Further violence feared amid fraud allegations Supporters of Michel Martelly at a campaign rally in Cap Haitian last month. Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP Haiti was today preparing for the results of troubled elections that have generated fraud charges, protests and sporadic violence, and which and …
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Haitian presidential candidates Mirlande Manigat, a 70-year-old grandmother, and Michel Martelly, a 49-year old pop star, are expected to face each other in a runoff vote to be held next month. By: Kenneth Kidd Feature Writer, Published on Mon Dec 06 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE—When Mirlande Manigat arrived at Collège Frère Ladauceur on Nov. 28 to cast …
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