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Haitians take to the streets in protest of election results
by Joseph Ernest December 8, 2010
Newscast Media PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti --Haitians took to the streets in protest of the recent poll results, and have set ablaze the main offices of the ruling party and barricades in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. Protesters descended up the streets of the capital city on Wednesday after officials announced that Jude Celestin, in the ruling party, will stand in the upcoming presidential runoff vote.
the popular singer Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly, had trailed Celestin by about 6,800 votes - less than one per cent, according to the preliminary results released by Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council. Martelly supporters set up barricades near the Petionville restaurant where the tallies were announced and threw rocks at people passing nearby. Gunshots were also heard.
Violence was also reported in Cap-Haitien as well as the southern city of Les Cayes, where residents said government buildings had been attacked and set on fire.
Much of the concern centered around conflicts between the announced results and those reported recently by the National Observation Council, a local election monitoring group financed by the European Union, which said that Celestin would be eliminated.
The US embassy said in an e-mailed statement: "The Government of the United States is concerned by the Provisional Electoral Council's announcement of preliminary results ... that are inconsistent with the published results of the National Election Observation Council'' as well as US observers and vote counts by domestic and international observers". Add Comments>>
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