Haiti's Preval Clings to his Coup: Celestin to Advance by Stanley Lucas

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Despite an outcry from all Haitian society and various actors of the international community over the widespread irregularities during and blatant manipulation of the November 28 presidential and legislative elections, Rene Preval remains committed to executing his electoral coup.

As of Monday, December 6, the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) is busy at work at the tabulation center putting the final touches on the results that will be announced shortly.

Out of the 99 seats up for election in the legislature, only two senators and nine deputies won their seats in the first round.

Mirlande Manigat and Michel Martelly qualified for the presidential runoff.

Despite being "unofficial", the news is so certain that many of the foreign press broadcast these results on Monday night, and on Tuesday afternoon at a USIP roundtable on Haiti, OAS Assistant Secretary, Ambassador Albert Ramdin, confirmed that information.

On Tuesday December 7 around noon, President Preval ordered the CEP President Gaillot Dorsinvil and Director General Pierre Louis Opont to change the results.

They did. They gave INITE 90% of legislative seats, sent their remaining legislative candidates to the runoff, and replaced Martelly with Jude Celestin, the candidate of the ruling party.

It has been extensively reported that Celestin would win the elections in rigged elections.

But this obviously has not even slowed down Preval's plan to put him in place.

According to many analysts, if this farce is allowed to continue, the situation will quickly deteriorate.

For more See:
solutionshaiti.blogspot.com/2010/12/haiti-preval-clings-to-his-coup.html

Carole Frerot, December 8 2010, 9:36 AM

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