Haiti Electoral Update by Stanley Lucas

Haiti Electoral Update by Stanley Lucas

Background

On November 28, Haiti organized an election for President, a third of the senate and 99 seats in the lower Chamber.

The pre-electoral period was characterized by political manipulation of the electoral process by the ruling party INITE, a partisan Provisional Electoral Council (CEP), corruption, questionable technical assistance that led to organizational failures, and weak international electoral observation missions, for more see: solutionshaiti.blogspot.com/2011/02/ha...