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	Analysis: Haiti, Elections in Haiti?
		The elections between 1986 (fallen and fled by Jean Claude Duvalier) and 1990 supposed blatant attempts to perpetuate the duvalerism without Duvalier and are significant due to the omnipresent ineffectiveness of the military cast.
		The elections of 1991 that resulted with an overwhelming victory for Aristide –the priest of the poor- settled with a bloody coup in the eighth month and later to a brutal military dictatorship (1991-1994).
		The elections in the mid-1990s were held in an incipient climate of polarization and unrest and showed the growing differences of an ever growing isolated and authoritative Aristide, and his former allies of Fanmi Lavalas.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/LSGZ-6NDE2R?OpenDocument (1301 words)

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		Efforts aimed at improving the situation of women in Haiti should support a sustainable, grass-roots approach that is focused on building the capacity of women, women’s leaders and women’s organizations at all levels.
		The elections council decided that Haiti was unprepared to hold the election on Dec. 27, the date announced last week by interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue.
		Haiti's lack of equipment and trained poll workers, its crumbling infrastructure and its violence have made it difficult to register voters.
	www.lycos.com /info/haiti--elections.html (391 words)

	Progressio - Haiti: presidential elections postponed for a third time
		Presidential and legislative elections in Haiti have been postponed for a third time because the country is not ready for a peaceful process, say election officials.
		Elections were first scheduled for 13 November but were delayed because of organisational difficulties.
		Haiti - the poorest country in the western hemisphere - has been blighted by political and criminal violence and instability during the last two years, despite an interim government and the presence of UN peacekeepers.
	www.ciir.org /Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=92396 (231 words)

	Haiti: Preparing for Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Municipal elections in Haiti are scheduled for October 9; legislative and presidential elections are scheduled for November 16, with a possible presidential run-off in December.
		Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council is working closely with the United Nations mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and the Organization of American States to prepare for and conduct elections.
		The 2005 elections are the most important means to achieving political stability, according to representatives of the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank, who underlined the need to establish a basic consensus among political and civil actors on a medium-term strategy to create a stable political atmosphere.
	www.iadialog.org /summaries/apr05/haiti.asp (465 words)

	Haiti: postponed elections & growing violence \| Independent World Television
		Haiti’s democratic system was traumatized for the second time within several years, when the U.S. orchestrated the ouster of its de jure president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, on February 29 of last year.
		Haiti's current political landscape seems eerily familiar to that which was left in the ruinous wake of the departure of Baby Doc Duvalier in 1986.
		Haiti’s basic fact of life today is that neither economic nor political democracy exists in the country, and no one could venture to claim that the vote of a subsistence farmer in Haiti's Artibonite valley will carry the same political weight after the election as that of a Pétion-ville businessman.
	www.iwtnews.com /Haiti_elections (3368 words)

	Political Affairs Magazine - Free and Fair Elections in Haiti
		Haiti found itself in a paradox in which aid was being held hostage by elections that could not take place successfully without outside assistance as well as cooperation from the country’s political opposition.
		Haiti was dropped from active CARICOM membership following Aristide’s departure from the island, when the Caribbean body labeled the Latortue administration as unconstitutional and said that Haiti’s full membership would not be restored until national elections were held.
		Haiti’s fate today lies in its ability to secure a predictable flow of financial support until it is able to stabilize its government, rebuild its infrastructure and transform its institutions.
	www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/1354/1/102 (1675 words)

	The Dominion: Haiti's Biometric Elections
		It makes sense that in a post-coup elections context characterized by massive unemployment, paramilitary violence and reorganization, police impunity, social violence, and heavy international intervention at all levels of governance, a national debate over biometrics is low on Haiti's list of priorities.
		Haiti is a country in which people fighting to survive in the poorest slums are profiled as terrorist "chimères", while ex-military commanders responsible for massacres--Jodel Chamblain, for example--move about freely.
		Haiti's ID cards are being manufactured and digitized out of country, by the Mexican branch of Digimarc, an Oregon-based company that is on the International Foundation for Elections Systems' (IFES) list of suppliers.
	dominionpaper.ca /opinion/2005/10/13/haitis_bio.html (1459 words)

	Haiti's Struggle
		Haiti is an amazing place in that it never fails to surprise even the most hardened observers, not to mention the Haitians themselves.
		The future -- and that is all Haiti has -- lies with this country's youngest generation -- and with nearly 4 million children, almost half of Haiti‚s population is under the age of 18.
		Haiti is so poor that the child labor common in other parts of the developing world doesn't exist -- there is simply no work at all.
	blog.washingtonpost.com /haitisstruggle (2055 words)

	Haiti's Troubled Elections - Council on Foreign Relations
		Haiti's February 7 presidential and legislative elections, already postponed four times, were slow to get underway.
		Yet, as the New York Times editorializes, Haiti has since gone from troubled democracy to a "more deeply troubled nondemocracy," as well as an example of the limitations of UN peacekeeping.
		Jean-Marie Guéhenno, the UN undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations, tells cfr.org's Mary Crane that in order for stability to come to Haiti, the UN must "be very clear that we will really stay the course." But Der Spiegel says neither the UN nor the election will prevent the further deterioration of Haiti.
	www.cfr.org /publication/9775/haitis_troubled_elections.html (726 words)

	Elections in Haiti - What about Democracy? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Now, with the date of the Haitian presidential elections approaching (mid December), we're told this is a concrete way for Haitian people to exercise their right to sovereignty and to express their will.
		This elections will be a milestone in the occupation; it's the necessary illusion of democracy in a world dominated by multinationals in a deeply undemocratic way.
		And Aristide's party is torn between those who call for active resistance and boycott, and the bourgeois sectors that are trying to accommodate to the new situation and presented their own candidates: ex-president Preval and Bazin, former prime minister of the dictator Cedras!.
	struggle.ws /wsm/ws/2005/89/haiti.html (660 words)

	Haiti Elections
		The May 21 elections were considered crucial for restoring this country's battered economy and political system and gaining international recognition.
		Election officials also confirmed Monday that the monthlong delay in counting the votes made it impossible to hold run-off elections on Sunday as scheduled.
		Yet the legitimacy of the elections, particularly in the eyes of the international community, is essential if Haiti is to climb out of the political and economic hole it has been in for approximately three years.
	www.haitipolicy.org /archives/lanier.htm (807 words)

	The elections in Haiti in 2000
		Various popular organizations declare that it is impossible to hold parliamentary and municipal elections on March 19 as scheduled.
		The postponement of parialmentary elections is being portrayed by an uncritical press as President Preval ruling by decree, after having sacked Parliament.
		All of Haiti's major opposition parties are boycotting the Nov. 26 vote, and Aristide's race against a handful of unknowns is raising questions at home and abroad about the legitimacy of any victory.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/43a/index-bbad.html (689 words)

	The Objector Magazine Online: Elections in Haiti: Papering Over an Illegal Situation
		Nevertheless, the interim government is determined to hold elections in November of this year, despite rampant violence and the continuing imprisonment of Lavalas party leaders.
		The goal of these elections is not to elect a representative government chosen by the people of Haiti, but rather to legitimize the ongoing process to eliminate Lavalas as a national movement and to demonstrate popular support for the candidate hand picked by the U.S. government.
		Any free society would consider elections a sham in which members of the most popular party cannot campaign because of threats of imprisonment or death, and such is the state of "demonstration" elections in Haiti today.
	www.objector.org /cground/paperelection.html (1040 words)

	Elections in Haiti
		I congratulate the Haitian people for demonstrating their commitment to democracy by voting in large numbers on February 7.
		I also applaud the Interim Government of Haiti, the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP), the United Nations, MINUSTAH and the Organization of American States for organizing this successful election and assisting the people of Haiti to freely elect their leaders.
		It is important that Haiti’s citizens and political parties respect the final results when they are announced and support the democratic process as Haiti moves from an interim government to an elected one.
	www.state.gov /secretary/rm/2006/60851.htm (179 words)

	Elections: Haiti's "impossible nightmare?" - June 7, 2005
		Haiti Information Project (HIP) The centerpiece of the international community's policy to rebuild violence-torn Haiti is the upcoming elections that were originally scheduled to begin in October of this year.
		Haiti's latest wave of violence and insecurity began after the Haitian police fired on peaceful marches in the capital demanding the return of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Feb.
		In Haiti's second largest city, Cap Haitien, there appears to be even less interest by the population in registering for the vote.
	www.haitiaction.net /News/HIP/6_7_5.html (1622 words)

	Haiti's elections
		The UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti [MINUSTAH] denies all responsibility in the issue concerning the ballots discovered in a garbage dump in Truitier, north of Port-au-Prince, yesterday.
		For them, it is very unlikely that the elections will lead to a real advance in democracy and an improvement in the living conditions of the underprivileged population.
		"The country's current situation is not favourable to the holding of elections", declared the organisation's leader, referring to the worsening socio-economic situation and the presence of United Nations troops in Haiti.
	haitisupport.gn.apc.org /elections2006.htm (2301 words)

	Upcoming Elections in Haiti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On November 25, Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) announced that the first round of Haitian presidential elections would be postponed a third time to January 8, 2006.
		There was consensus among the speakers that additional postponement of the elections until February would only enhance the credibility and security of the elections.
		He contended that René Préval, former President of Haiti (1995-2000) is "the man to beat." Delatour saw signs that several top candidates, including Préval, had an interest in reaching out to opposing parties and building a governing coalition.
	www.iadialog.org /summaries/dec05/fatton.asp (269 words)

	Embassy of Haiti - The Electoral Proces - February 17, 2003
		Parish priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected president with an overwhelming 67% of the vote among a field of 13 candidates.
		The only institutional flaw identified by the Organization of American States (OAS) in Haiti’s May 21, 2000 legislative elections was the interpretation of the electoral law adopted by the electoral council to calculate the percentage of votes obtained by 8 senatorial candidates.
		Nowhere in its electoral report does the OAS suggest that the entire election involving 29,500 candidates vying for close to 7,500 seats be redone, or that there was widespread fraud or misconduct that would call the election into question.
	www.haiti.org /Whatsnew/elct.htm (671 words)

	Editorial: Elusive elections / Beleaguered Haiti still looks for leadership (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The state of play on Haiti's part of an island that it shares with the Dominican Republic is not encouraging.
		His followers are an important element in the disorder in Haiti that threatens to torpedo the election effort once again.
		Just what state of disorder prevails in Haiti was illustrated earlier this month when Gen. Urano Teixeira Da Matta Bacellar, the Brazilian commander of the United Nations' 9,000 peacekeepers in Haiti, apparently committed suicide.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06017/639062.stm (450 words)

	PRESS CONFERENCE ON HAITI ELECTIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On the eve of tomorrow’s elections in Haiti for Parliament and President, Hédi Annabi, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, told correspondents today at Headquarters, that free, fair, credible and transparent elections there were “an essential step away from violence and towards laying the foundations of a stable and democratic future”.
		Improvement in the daily lives of the people of Haiti shortly after the elections would be essential. That would require efforts and generous support by the donor countries.
		He said the elections would be closely watched by several hundred international monitors, from the European Union and organizations that cooperated under the umbrella of the ad hoc group International Mission for Monitoring the Haitian Elections, as well, among others, as the Organization Internationale de la Francophonie.
	www.un.org /News/briefings/docs/2006/060206_Annabi.doc.htm (312 words)

	Haiti News : Indybay
		The second round of elections had been set for March but was delayed because of the volume of complaints from the first round in February.
		Elections are not supposed to make everyone happy; they are supposed to apportion political power according to majority vote, on the basis of set rules.
		Haiti's election dates have now been reset for the fourth time in the last five months.
	www.indybay.org /international/haiti (4789 words)

	Politics of Haiti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Politics of Haiti takes place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President of Haiti is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		Haiti is officially a presidential republic, although it is often claimed to be authoritarian in practice.
		Alexandre, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, was in line to succeed the President in case of death or resignation, according to the 1987 Constitution of Haiti.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Haiti (1312 words)

	Haiti
		The coup overthrew a progressive agenda supported by the vast majority of Haiti's population: literacy programs, health care, children's rights, a raise in the minimum wage, resistance to privatization, and the struggle to bring human rights violators to justice were all prioritized by Lavalas.
		The main reason storms last summer killed so many in Haiti (while killing fewer in countries where the damage was actually worse) was that the emergency response network set up by the Lavalas government had been dismantled by the U.S.-backed coup regime.
		UN collusion with the betrayal of Haiti's masses was clear when a delegation from the UN Security Council visited Haiti for four days in April 2005.
	www.globalexchange.org /tours/haiti/index.html (895 words)

	Security Council Calls for Prompt Elections in Haiti
		Haiti, one of the world's poorest countries, has been plagued by violence.
		The Security Council sent a U.N. peacekeeping mission to Haiti in June, 2004, and the world body has played a lead role in technical and logistical preparations for the national elections.
		Winners of the election will replace the interim government installed after former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted in the face of political turmoil in February, 2004.
	www.voanews.com /english/2006-01-07-voa1.cfm (497 words)

	Haiti - UN Security Council - Global Policy Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Despite Haiti’s constitution guaranteeing the freedom of all Haitian citizens to leave and return to the country, the same foreign powers that drove Aristide from power and threw Haiti into chaos are determined to prevent his return.
		The UN denied allegations from witnesses that peacekeepers from the UN Mission in Haiti opened fire on a crowd of protesters demanding Rene Preval be declared the winner of the presidential election.
		Former Haiti shadow Prime Minister Yvon Neptune remains imprisoned by the US-instituted interim government, accused of orchestrating a massacre in the country’s north.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/haitindex.htm (6572 words)

	Haiti Progres - Haitian Weekly - Jounal Ayisyen - Journal Haïtien
		The main protagonist of the Times piece is former U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Brian Dean Curran, a Clinton appointee who complains that the Bush administration worked "to undermine the reconciliation process after disputed 2000 Senate elections threw Haiti into a violent political crisis," the Times reported.
		In the face of mounting international pressure, on Jan. 29 Haitian de facto authorities allowed political prisoner Father Gérard Jean-Juste to provisionally leave his jail cell and fly to Miami to obtain medical treatment for recently contracted pneumonia as well as leukemia, with which he was diagnosed almost two months ago (see Haïti Progrès, Vol.
		Accompanied from Haiti by one of his North American lawyers, Bill Quigley, Jean-Juste flew on American Airlines to Miami where he was met at the airport by about 25 people, including leaders from Veye Yo, the Miami-based popular organization he helped found in the 1980s when he directed the Haitian Refugee Center.
	www.haitiprogres.com /eng02-01.html (1620 words)

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