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Opposition Sides Claim Haiti Elections Jeopardized
Leading opposition factions are alleging that Haiti's presidentially appointed electoral council is stacking the deck in favor of President Michel Martelly, who has scheduled long-delayed ...
he electoral council picked by Martelly has only seven of its mandated nine members and its president, Fritzo Canton, is a lawyer who is defending former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier against charges of embezzlement and human rights abuses.
"What Haiti needs is an impartial electoral council that won't take sides for either the government or the opposition," said Dieudonne Saincy, Unity's spokesman. "We are now in a political crisis because this electoral council is entirely under the control of Martelly."
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