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Re: The Entire Debate Between Martelly And Manigat - Live In Video

Louis - March 2 2012, 12:33 PM

Thanks HF for covering this ianortmpt issue.

Despite the anti-democratic bias of the headline of this piece, Mr. Walser does make one good point "[Haiti] will not be able to move forward without an elected government its beleaguered people consider legitimate and believe they can trust." That is entirely correct.

And it is also *exactly* why the progressives you criticize are calling for new elections.

The most widely supported political party in Haiti, Fanmi Lavalas, founded by Mr. Aristide, was excluded from the Nov. elections on a technicality.

Second, it's disingenuous for Mr. Walser to affect the language of democracy while opposing the return of Haiti's single-most widely supported leader (67% in a multi-candidate race in 1990. And 92% in 2000. And spare me the false predictable retort of a "popular rebellion" in 2004. The leader of that violent coup ran for president in 2006 and received less than 2% of the vote. That Aristide is, and was, hugely popular is not disputed by honest and sane observers).

HF is right to be true to its ideological convictions, but don't forget that those ideological convictions are consistently rejected by Haitian voters.

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