Election - Haiti Observer Blog

Our Haitian authorities suffer from a lack planning capability. This time, the official results of the run-off election that was scheduled to be announced this Saturday, will instead be announced on Monday.

What else is new in Haiti...

President-elect Michel Martelly is scheduled to go into office as the new president of Haiti on May 14. He is currently forming his government so that his team can start working on day one.

Is this going to be delayed as well.....

Martelly has a big task ahead of him and will soon face a challenging environment that includes a Senate and Chamber of Deputies controlled by RenePreval's INITE party.

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The election of Michel Martelly in the Caribbean country of Haiti marks the beginning of a new era. You are experiencing the beginning of a shift. This is a time when a new generation of Haitians is taking over to provide new leadership and at the same time allowing the old, to leave with grace.

The road will not be easy for them because this new generation of Haitian politicians will not have political experience. Don't worry; their common sense which is much higher than that of the old school will compensate for any lack in political experience.

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The CEP just gave the awaited preliminary results of the run-off election in Haiti. As it was announced earlier today, candidate Michel martelly is the winner. The new president of the Republic of Haiti will be Michel Martelly.

Percentage of votes:

Michel Martelly: 67.57% of the votes

Mirlande Manigat: 31.74% of the votes

The CEP started publicizing the results at 7:30pm, on April 4, 2011 and by :00, Candidate Michel Martelly was declared winner for the presidency of Haiti.

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According to Miami Herald, Michel Martelly is reportedly the winner of the Election. The Miami Herald just reported the news now as we speak.

Actual quote from Miami Herald:
" Former singer Michel 'Sweet Micky' Martelly is expected to be the next president of Haiti, observers say, defeating former first lady Mirlande Manigat."

Sa Se Nouvel Vant Bef....

The Miami Herald also reported:
" Michel "Sweet Micky'' Martelly, 50, has received more than the required 50 percent plus one of the vote required to beat longtime opposition leader and former first lady Mirlande Manigat to win Haiti's first presidential runoff election in a quarter century. Martelly reportedly won the election by a 3-1 margin."

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As We are waiting for the CEP to publish the preliminary results of the 2011 Haiti election run-off, the "Haitian Joudalist" would like to take his own poll to see whom you think will come out on top, according to the CEP.

Do you think the results will be based on the results of the election or just a selection? Whether or not it is an election or a selection, who do you think will likely come out on top?

Will it be from the Michel Martelly camp or from the Mirland Manigat Camp

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My friend, the real reason is called Election Day and five years from now. March 20 has a lot more meaning to both the International Community and Jean-Bertrand Aristide than you can begin to understand. However nobody could talk about it.

I was unable to understand why a lot of effort, energies and resources have been invested to prevent Jean-Bertrand Aristide from returning to Haiti before the election scheduled for March 20, 2011.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his attorney Ira Kurzban wanted us to believe that the only reason he wanted to come before the election, is because the next Haitian government might make it difficult for him to comeback. But Mr. Aristide, you could come to Haiti at any time in the week following the election because your friend Rene Preval would still be in office and would have the same power that he had before the election, and you would not have any problem

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Just 10 days before the Presidential run-off election in Haiti, Michel Martelly is leading in the poll. A poll conducted by a private Haitian research group found that Michel Martelly is ahead of Mirlande Manigat by more than 4 points. According to the pollster, a survey conducted between March 3 and March 6 to 6000 Haitians found that 50.8 percent supports Michel Martelly, compared to 46.2 percent who said that they will vote for Mirlande Manigat.

Another important point to notice is that Haitian men tend to stay with Martelly and Haitian women favor Manigat.

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With the active complicity of Haiti's armed forces, the paramilitary neo-Duvalier sabotaged post Duvalier's first ballot. The country would be able to select leaders democratically by this ballot. In Port-au-Prince at the Ruelle Vaillant alley 20 voters were sadly murdered.

Effect of the Terror Wave
The terror wave or a thunderbolt from the sky on 29th November 1987 affected the Artibonite and other departments. This massacre announced the country's general context of 26th April 1986 or in 22nd June 1987 to 29th November 1987.

General Henri Namphy, chairman of the National Council of Government was not in favor of the electoral process. Through different measures he demonstrated this which escaped the Army's control. He got his own writ published on 22nd June 1987 by ignoring the 1987 constitution.

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The CEP made it official. Mirlande Manigat and Michel Martelly are officially. What made it even more insulting is that while the local press spent the night waiting for the official result, the news was released to the international news media.

In Haiti, we do things differently

Are we going to hear from Jude Celestin?

Does Michel Martelly now agree with the results?

"Ede'm Rele", Ede'm Crie"

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The two candidates who will be in the run-off Haiti election will be announced by Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council (CEP). We already know that Mirlande Manigat is a candidate. The real question now: Is it going to be Jude Celestin or Michel Martelly?

The choice has been made for us. We just need to be told at this point.

It seems to me that everyone is involved in making decisions for Haiti, except the Haitian population.

The OAS has recommended that Jude Celestin be replaced by Michel Martelly because of fraud in the November election. The US and United Nations seem to agree with the OAS recommendations.

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