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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Sep 27, 2015
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• Category : Haiti News
• Description : Reuters
  
  World | Tue Sep 8, 2015 7:51pm EDT
  
  PORT-AU-PRINCE | BY PETER GRANITZ
• Location : Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti
• Website : http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/08/us-haiti-election-idUSKCN0R82TS20150908

Overview

• A leading political party in Haiti announced on Tuesday that it was pulling out of next month's legislative elections, saying it was the primary victim of violence during the first round of voting in August.
  
  It was not immediately clear whether the pullout would disrupt the second-round runoff on Oct. 25, when Haitians are also due to cast ballots for a new president.
  
  But the move was seen as another setback for stability in the impoverished Caribbean country, long rocked by political turmoil.
  
  The Vérité (Truth) Party, which announced its boycott of the upcoming poll, is widely seen as a leading political threat to President Michel Martelly's Haitian Tet Kale (Bald Headed) Party, which takes its name from Martelly's trademark shaved scalp.
  
  It cited violent attacks on polling stations in the capital of Port-au-Prince and about 50 of 1,500 voting centers around the country on election day on Aug. 9 as the reason it was withdrawing from the next round.
  
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