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'Sweet Micky' Martelly reportedly wins Haiti election

Former singer Michel 'Sweet Micky' Martelly is expected to be the next president of Haiti, observers say, defeating former first lady Mirlande Manigat.

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Michel Martelly Haiti presidential candidate gives a press conference in the Hotel Oloffson in Puerto Principe.

The candidate will face second round against Mirlande Manigat.

February 21, 2011. AFP PHOTO / Hector Retamal (Photo credit should read HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images)
Michel Martelly Haiti presidential candidate gives a press conference in the Hotel Oloffson in Puerto Principe.

The candidate will face second round against Mirlande Manigat.

February 21, 2011. AFP PHOTO / Hector Retamal (Photo credit should read HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images)
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By Jacqueline Charles
jcharles at MiamiHerald.com

PORT-AU-PRINCE -- A carnival singer who reinvented himself into a polished political outsider is poised to become Haiti's new president, according to several sources familiar with the results that are expected to be released later Monday.

Michel "Sweet Micky'' Martelly, 50, has received more than the required 50 percent plus one of the vote required to beat longtime opposition leader and former first lady Mirlande Manigat to win Haiti's first presidential runoff election in a quarter century.

Martelly reportedly won the election by a 3-1 margin.

The preliminary results of Haiti's March 20 elections were transmitted at 8 a.m. Monday to the executive director of the Provisional Electoral Council, whose members triggered momentary panic Sunday evening when they unexpectedly showed up at the vote tabulation center where tally sheets were undergoing a final scrutiny for fraud.

The second round of elections for the presidential and legislative races were better organized than the first round.

But like the chaotic Nov. 28 first round, the runoffs were also marred by fraud and irregular voting.

As of 4 p.m. Sunday, some 1,718 presidential tally sheets out of more than 25,000 had been tossed out of the final vote count.

The number accounted for between 15 and 18 percent of the tallies.

The average margin of fraud in elections for Latin America is between 2 to 3 percent, according to elections experts in the region.

During the March 20 runoff, voters not only stuffed ballots but they also included fraudulent voter identification numbers, which were picked up by elections workers who included 16 attorneys trained in new criteria set up by the Organization of American States.

Already leading a joint elections observer mission with the Caribbean Community, the OAS was brought in following the first round to verify the vote and put in new procedures in hopes of salvaging the election.

Less clear are the results of the legislative elections, described by one diplomat "as a mess."

There were more than 70 legislative runoff races to fill both the Senate and the lower chamber of deputies.

Haitian President Rene Preval's INITE party was vying to take control of parliament after losing being forced to remove their presidential candidate from the runoff spot in favor of Martelly.

Following the first round, Martelly insisted that he -- and not the government's choice -- should go into the runoff against Manigat.

His supporters shut down major cities for three days with rioting.

A controversial review of the vote by an OAS experts mission eventually agreed with him.

For days Haiti has been on edge awaiting the presidential results, with Manigat supporters fielding rumors of a victory and supporters of Martelly threatening to take to the streets in a violent outrage if he were to lose.

Pras Michel, a Martelly supporter and a Haitian-American rapper formerly of the Grammy-award winning hip hop group The Fugees, was accused of followers on his Twitter account of inciting violence when at 9 p.m. Sunday, he tweeted: Machete + gasoline + matches = the will of the people.

Followers responded by asking why was he preaching violence, while Martelly supporters quickly denounced him, saying he doesn't speak on behalf of the presidential candidate.

Michel, who was seen in Haiti Saturday night at the bar at the upscale Karibe hotel in Petionville, later removed the tweet.

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magslam 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
Would he make more money as President?

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Sylvester Bonds 4 comments collapsed Collapse Expand
do they only have light skinned politicians in haiti?

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haitianpolitics 2 comments collapsed Collapse Expand
No. There are much more "dark skinned" politicians than light skinned.

And don't turn this into a racial issue.

Just because everything is a racial issue here doesn't mean it's valid everywhere else.
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thats an ignorant comment
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bana2166 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
thats an ignorant comment ...

Sylvester - If you don't have anything positive to add to this conversation ...

Just be quiet ..

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pozepiti 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
Yes, we did. Make us proud tet kale.
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queenMy 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
Are you serious?

is that a question?

We have both light skin and white in Hati. It looks like you haven't travelled much?

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at Sylvester bonds...

Are you serious?

is that a question?

We have both light skin and white in Hati. It looks like you haven't travelled much?

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I think, Mr. Martelly should feel that way, it is prerogative attitude which is not based on common sense of a normal human psyche however, that was a good try. I do admire Mr. Michel for his capacity by stand up to proved to the rest of Haitians intellectual what that means when negligence took place into society supposedly take pride about who they are, in reality, that wasn't they case. Michel And Wyclef may consider themselves as a truth Haitians Hero on any type of forms we may look at it.

Their visibilities to took advantage form the situation shown a huge respects for their enthusiastic and momentum is well. There is only thing I would like them to do, is to have an effective speech ready, regardless of, no matter what the outcome may be. To say example; how they feel about others who may be lot more incline but week and impaired but not quite aware of what was the next steep to take in order to change a society, by totally failure to used their resources intellectually in order to impact the Haitian constitution from the get go for the command good.

Both, Mr. Michel and Wyclef are a effective front players, but I am not sure about their visibilities of a quarterback for sure. As we are move back and forth and forward, we had the chance to observed Mrs. Mirlande versed tactic which I think a normal, where some Haitian brother continue to questioning her capacity which may not be effectively for many Haitian brothers in time. But, what is important so fare?

I would say, regardless whenever the result may be. Haitians people should, should again take the moment into consideration make something out it. The main issue is to visualizing THE MOMENT, MOMENT, MOMENT, and applying MOMENTUM into it. What can be so simple like this one after all the mistake, who should we blame for our destination?

(Moise, 2011)
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We don't have time for this dark skinned/like skinned BS speech.

We have bigger problem to discuss about.

We are talking about Haiti not US. So please!
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