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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Apr 28, 2015
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• Category : Haiti News
• Description : Miami Herald
  BY JACQUELINE CHARLES, JCHARLES@MIAMIHERALD.COM
  04/23/2015 1:36 PM 04/23/2015 5:06 PM
  
  Photo: Haitian President Michel Martelly confers with his wife Sophia Martelly during ceremonies marking Haiti's 209th year of independance from France in 1804, in the northern city of Gonaives on January 1, 2013. The first lady has filed to run for a Senate seat. THONY BELIZAIRE AFP/GETTY IMAGES
• Location : Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti
• Website : http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article19318053.html

Overview

• Haiti’s First Lady Sophia Martelly filed Thursday to run for a Senate seat representing the West department, which encompasses the capital of Port-au-Prince.
  
  “What you suspected, it is so,” Martelly tweeted with a photo of her holding up her registration document.
  
  Whether Martelly would seek a Senate seat in the Aug. 9 legislative elections or attempt to replace her husband, Michel Martelly, in the Oct. 25 presidential balloting has been a subject of much speculation among Haiti watchers.
  
  President Martelly begins the final year of his five-year presidential term in May. If no one wins the first round of presidential elections on Oct. 25 out right, runoffs will take place Dec. 27.
  
  The last day for candidates to register for parliamentary elections was Thursday after the Provisional Electoral Council extended the deadline a few days to give candidates living outside the capital and other major cities time to file.
  
  As of Wednesday 2,313 Haitians had registered. There were 301 candidates for the 20 vacant seats in the Senate and 2,012 for the 119-member chamber of deputies, according to Haiti’s Le Nouvelliste newspaper.
  
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