Amid energetic protests fueled by shared criticisms from people in the streets and opposition political parties that the nation’s political process is awash with fraud, the ruling government of Haiti on Friday cancelled national elections scheduled for Sunday by saying it could not guarantee the safety of voters.
“Will Haiti’s long-suffering population ever see the day when voters’ preference actually decides who will lead them? Will the international community’s often patronizing, ‘We know what’s best for you’ attitude, ever give way to support for the same democratic values in Haiti that it cherishes at home?”
“[It is] no longer opportune for having elections considering the threats against the electoral infrastructure and on the population who would have to go vote,” Pierre-Louis Opont, the president of the country’s beleaguered Provisional Electoral Council (CEP), said at a government news conference in the city of Petionville.
According to the Miami Herald:
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