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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Oct 03, 2015
• Views : 710
• Category : Diaspora News
• Description : By Dady Chery
  NEWS JUNKIE POST
  
  Sep 22, 2015 at 12:47 pm
• Website : http://newsjunkiepost.com/2015/09/22/haiti-election-circus-for-diaspora-more-kaka-from-minustah/

Overview

• Haiti has no government. Of the 1,500 elected officials who populated the country’s political life in 2011, the only one left is Michel Martelly, if one overlooks the fact that he was brought to power in rigged elections. Five years have come and gone since Haiti’s last elections. Two cycles of legislative and municipal elections have passed and been neglected; consequently the parliament was dissolved on January 12, 2015. Plenty of damage has been done to Haiti’s agricultural economy, but the international community is at an impasse with regard to the country’s minerals. They cannot carry off Haiti’s gold without either some semblance of legitimacy or the exercise of brute force. There were too many protests in fall 2014 and early 2015. Even the carnival, a soccer tournament, and a juicy sex scandal, the usually guaranteed distractions, have failed. It is time for elections.
  
  The electoral calendar is as follows:
  
  August 9, 2015 – First round of the legislative elections.
  October 25, 2015 – Second-round of legislative elections; local elections; first round of presidential elections.
  December 27, 2015 – Second round of presidential elections.
  Compared to the $5-million 2010 fiasco, this time around, it will cost about 10 times more money to rent Haiti. Of the $50-60 million anticipated expenditure for the 2015 (s)elections, $37.9 million were confirmed by June 1, 2015, with the following breakdown:
  
  Haiti & US = US, $20.3 million (53%)
  EU, 6.8 million (18%)
  Canada, 5.3 million (14%)
  Japan, 4.5 million (12%)
  Brazil, 1.0 million ( 3%)
  
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