New Haiti president calls for ‘collaboration’
WASHINGTON — Haiti‘s president-elect Michel Martelly urged opponents to work with him to rebuild the quake-hit Caribbean nation after being officially declared the winner of last month’s run-off.
Martelly’s fledgling Reypons Peysan party won only three parliamentary seats and to enact the reforms Haiti needs so badly, he will have to forge deals with the ruling Unity Party, which consolidated its power in the legislature.
Diplomatic sources, meanwhile, claimed President Rene Preval‘s Unity used its influence to manipulate votes in the legislative elections in its favor.
“There was a lot of pressure” on election officials ahead of the official results unveiled earlier, a European diplomat said. “The international community is surprised by the difference between preliminary results and those unveiled yesterday.”
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