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Haiti: Preval Party Wins Senate Seats

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 @ 11:57 UTC

by Janine Mendes-Franco

Countries:: Haiti
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Economics, Elections, Governance, Protest, International Relations, Politics
Languages:: English

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Haiti: Victoire du Parti du Président Préval pour le Senat...

Repeating Islands notes that “preliminary results from last week’s run-off elections in Haiti indicate that President René Preval’s party won five of 11 contests to fill open Senate seats”, but adds that “there have been…threats from other senators to block the seating…because of the extremely low voter turnout in the run-offs…”

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