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More Fraud, Intimidation, and Illegitimacy Assured in Haiti's Electoral Runoff - by Stephen Lendman
On November 28, Haiti's first round legislative and presidential elections were so tainted, they elevated sham elections to a new level - a cruel joke, a process in name only, one fraudulent enough to make a despot blush. Now round two, New York Times writer Deborah Sontag headlining, "Candidates Face Runoff in Haiti's Troubled Vote," saying:
On December 7, Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) announced "that Mirlande Manigat, a former Haitian first lady, and Jude Celestin, (Preval's man), had won the first round of voting."
Correction: stole the first round. Neither candidate was the people's choice. For them, none of the above ranked first, followed by Jean-Henry Ceant, a Haitian businessman, community leader and philanthropist.
He campaigned on Aristide's slogan: "All people are people/Everyone is equal (tou moun se moun)." Like so many previous times, it may have been campaign hyperbole. Now eliminated, we'll never know. What is clear is that Haitians again were defrauded, an old story they never accept.
In a mid-November interview, Aristide's spokeswoman Maryse Narcisse said:
Fanmi Lavalas supporters (the vast majority) "are not participating in an illegal election. The November 28 elections are not elections. It's a selection process. What we're doing now is mobilizing people, sensitizing people against the selection. With this selection process, we are not going anywhere. We are moving towards instability that will last for many years."
America controls everything in Haiti, orchestrating coup d'etat rule. Its iron fist is always ready to prevent democratic elections for populist governance, an anathema notion Washington rejects everywhere, including at home.
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