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Haiti: Election Results Announced; Summary of Recent Developments John Neagle University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository NotiSur Latin America Digital Beat (LADB) 1-26-1988 Haiti: Election Results Announced; Summary Of Recent Developments John Neagle Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/notisur Recommended Citation Neagle, John. "Haiti: Election Results Announced; Summary Of Recent Developments." (1988). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ notisur/1225 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Latin America Digital Beat (LADB) at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in NotiSur by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. LADB Article Id: 075513 ISSN: 1060-4189 Haiti: Election Results Announced; Summary Of Recent Developments by John Neagle Category/Department: General Published: Tuesday, January 26, 1988 Jan. 19: According to sources cited by the Agence France-Presse, with little more than 23,000 votes counted, presidential candidate Leslie F. Manigat had a majority of just over 50%. Jan. 20: Opposition leader Louis Dejoie II, a candidate in the canceled Nov. 29 presidential elections, was arrested by Haitian police at the Port-au-Prince airport as he flew in from Puerto Rico. After the November election fiasco, Dejoie visited the US, Canada and several Caribbean nations requesting sanctions against Gen. Henri Namphy's junta. He is one of four leaders of an opposition coalition that boycotted the Jan. 17 vote and is calling for the results to be annulled. Dejoie lived in Puerto Rico for 26 years in exile before dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier fled to France in February 1986. Jan. 21: Dejoie was charged with with inciting public disorder and taken back to jail after a hearing in the Palace of Justice. Defense lawyer Georges Leger said his client "is held on charges of disturbing the peace, inciting disorder and violence." About 150 people who waited outside during the hour- long proceeding shouted "Free Dejoie! Free Dejoie!" as he was led out by soldiers. Other opposition leaders denounced the arrest. "We are ready to call a general strike if Louis Dejoie is not brought to trial with 48 hours," said Marc Bazin, an economist. Like Dejoie, Bazin was one of four main presidential candidates in the Nov. 29 election. Jan. 22: Dr. Louis Roy, another opposition leader, was detained in an airport lounge for 2-1/2 hours in Port-au- Prince after arriving aboard a flight from Puerto Rico. Roy said he was given no explanation for his detention. In interviews in Canada, Roy had urged foreign governments to refuse to recognize the results of the Jan. 17 election and to impose economic sanctions on Namphy's government. Shortly after Roy's detention, the authorities freed Dejoie. US Ambassador Brunson McKinley had personally appealed for the release of Dejoie. Haiti's electoral law required publication of voting results at each polling station on Jan. 18 and at regional elections headquarters on Jan. 20, but neither requirement was met. Electoral council officials indicated that it was unclear when results would be forthcoming. Jan. 24: The government- appointed electoral council declared Leslie F. Manigat, 57, as the country's next president. The council said Manigat had received 534,080 out of 1,059,915 votes cast, giving him 50.38% of the total. According to the council, 35% of Haiti's roughly 3 million eligible voters had cast ballots. Manigat is a political scientist who taught at universities in France and Venezuela during a 23-year period of exile. He has said that his major priorities as president would be job creation and food production. Other presidential candidates and opposition leaders immediately charged that the Haitian Army had rigged the election for Manigat, and that the tabulations had been inflated to reflect much higher voter turnout than was actually the case. In a brief television address from his home, Manigat promised the people of Haiti "a democratic, competent and honest government totally devoted to the people." Manigat has said that he believes that a cooperative relationship with the army is vital for a civilian president of Haiti. Marc Bazin, a former presidential candidate, said the opposition was urging the US and other nations to reject the election results. He said the opposition is considering an appeal to the Vatican to send a mediator to Haiti to conduct talks between the government and its opponents, in an effort to organize new elections. According to Bazin, no more than 5% of eligible ©2011 The University of New Mexico, Latin American & Iberian Institute. All rights reserved. Page 1 of 2 LADB Article Id: 075513 ISSN: 1060-4189 voters had voted. (Basic data from several sources, including AFP, AP, Washington Post, New York Times, Prensa Latina) -- End -- ©2011 The University of New Mexico, Latin American & Iberian Institute. All rights reserved. Page 2 of 2.
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