While in Haiti, politics, the election campaign for the presidential runoff election next month, most doubt the citizens from the polls this time, less chaotic, fraudulent and controversial will run as the first round of voting. Haitian officials had for 20 March promised improvements when the former First Lady Mirland Manigat by musician Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly is challenged. "We can not predict how evolved the second round," said Rosny Smarth, opposition politician and former Prime Minister, who belongs to that group, which is still the cancellation of the ballot of 28 November calls. "We have reached a point where the international community established a president in Haiti, regardless of whether the runoff runs well or not."
Under the intense pressure of international community, a controversial Election analysis of the Organization of American States to enforce / OAU had left, the Haitian electoral authorities Martellys meets demand that he emerged as runner-up in the first round. Thus rejected the provisional Electoral Council its first opinion, that Martelly would not feed into the runoff, but ranked behind the government candidate Jew Celestin. During the Electoral really needed a majority decision to announce the final result, but supported only four of the eight members of this result. The other four are in doubt, however, and opened so that any action against the presidential election door.
The U.S. and other countries befüworteten the runoff against. The Latin America expert at the U.S. State Department, Arturo Valanzela told Congress in early February that the election was a milestone in the election history of Haiti. Therefore, Washington should assist the Haitian electoral authorities also in the implementation of the second round. Still others doubt whether the presidential election could really keep a check stand. Finally, the by-election by Parliament in late November of irregularities, fraud and the risk was overshadowed, to create a crisis. "The democratic process in Haiti has suffered a huge setback," said Smarth. "If we do not return to democracy, it is come to a bang with one crisis after another. In the not too distant future will face a problem because these elections were not held according to democratic criteria. "
Last week, Manigat (70) and Martelly (50) entered officially in the campaign for the runoff election. While they initially after cancellation of the election were called, were both silent, as it became clear that they could come in the second round. Both were then confident that we can decide the ballot itself, expressed but also concerns about whether the election process had ended legally. The launch events were as varied as the candidates themselves, their agreement to avoid personal attacks, quickly forgotten, as Martellys Manigat bearing age and their lack of expertise in Internet communities because of criticism. Manigat followers then broke a moral debate from the fence, in which they prefer spearheaded Martellys to occur in skirts and his fans every now and again to show her bare butt.
"We have serious goals," said Manigat, who opened the campaign with a press conference in the destroyed Hotel Montana. "I will form a government that is reputable, competent and open to all," she said. Criticized for being better than speak French and Kreyol no I know of the poverty of the population, Manigat used the meeting to respond to their opponents directly. While she said foreign journalists at the press conference in English and English, she announced the Haitian press, opposite her future just yet relate to position in Kreyol. The day after it held its first election campaign in a slum, which is considered a stronghold of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Just hours earlier were deployed in the area 4000 Aristide supporters, to demand his return from the South African exile. They threatened to block the runoff election, if he were prevented from entering the country. "I know your problems, I know your pain. I am a mother, "Manigat told the crowd. You will" iron wear underwear, to throw himself into the battle for their interests.
hundreds of miles further north, gathered thousands of people in Cap-Haitien to listen Martelly . The event resembled a carnival parade, speaking as a pink-dressed Martelly of production targets, education and family values. In between, he presented the latest Tweets from his 7189 Twitter followers and put photos on his Facebook page. showed at his side, hip-hop musician Wyclef Jean, the revealed the day before his much sought-after support for Martelly had. observers expect that this assistance Martelly especially among the large layer of young people in Haiti could be selectively critical. At the side of Jean, a longtime friend and musical partner, said Martelly, his campaign will bring the people "joy, music, love, peace, wealth, development and change in all parts of the country Haiti.
But whether a candidate can convince the Haitian voters will have to be purchased legally mandate remained unclear. "This election is far from being perfect," stated Carlos Westendorp, former English Foreign Minister and current General Secretary of the Club of Madrid. The forum of former statesmen visited Haiti Last week, a visit and met with both candidates, election boards, entrepreneurs and President René Préval to discuss the upcoming runoff election. "There will inevitably be voices raised protest against the election and the legitimacy question," Westendorp said the Miami Herald. But the most important is that the vote will now complete properly and the reconstruction could finally pave the path.
Whoever is elected president occurs, the heritage of a country where charity is often encountered as jobs, the recovery and reconstruction since the Earthquake at a snail's pace and runs in a deadly cholera epidemic kills thousands of people, especially in remote areas with lousy roads. Beyond that, the international community of gigantic power, not only by paying the bulk of the expensive, over 30 million bill for the elections, but because it has pledged ten billion U.S. dollars in ten years for the reconstruction of Haiti. "The scope of the new president or the new president is extremely close," said Robert Fatton, Haiti expert at the University of Virginia. The most pressing question is which candidate can submit a development and reconstruction program, the broad electorate convinced the program and thereby giving weight. Fatton was concerned that although the election was regarded as historical, there could be less than a million votes that were not counted in the first round. "The March vote will not resolve the prevailing insecurity in the country, but rather increase yet," he declared.
own translation of the English original: heike fritz
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/21/2078278/campaign-opens-for-haitis-presidential.html
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