December 14, 2010
Categories: Elections
Tags: 2010 elections, election appeals, elections
Candidates appeal results: The three-day window for candidates to file appeals in the aftermath of the bitterly contested Nov. 28 presidential vote and the unrest ignited by dissatisfaction with the preliminary results began Monday amid a climate of tension.
December 14, 2010
Categories: Elections, Haiti, Politics
Tags: conflict, council, elections, haiti
Haiti’s leading candidate speaks against council: “Supporters of one of her competitors in Haiti’s presidential election set barricades on fire and threw rubble at cars when initial results put him third. The No. 2 finisher urged his partisans to mobilize and his staff warned they could start a war.”
December 13, 2010
Categories: Haiti, Infrastructure, Medicine and Health, Natural Disaster, NGOs
Georgianne Nienaber: New Haiti Cholera Warning, Vaccine Questions, and “Squatters” Vulnerable: “ While all eyes were on Sarah Palin’s visit to Haiti this weekend, Dr. Jocelyne Pierre Louis, Director of Haiti’s Department of Public Health and Population (MSPP) predicted a new outbreak of the cholera epidemic, particularly in Port-au-Prince and the Metropolitan Region due to […]
December 13, 2010
Categories: Elections, Haiti, Politics
Tags: elections, haiti, riots, Uncategorized
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Two of the top three candidates in Haiti’s disputed presidential election have rejected a proposed recount, threatening to torpedo a compromise aimed at quelling days of riots and violence over allegations that the vote was rigged. Only the candidate of the governing party, Jude Célestin, supports the offer by the electoral […]
December 13, 2010
Categories: Elections, Haiti, Politics
Tags: elections, haiti, Martelly, NYTimes, Politics
\ 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 […]