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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Apr 28, 2015
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• Category : Haiti News
• Description : April 23, 2015
  By Peter Granitz
• Location : Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti
• Website : http://haitiantimes.com/more-than-2000-candidates-enter-race-for-haiti-political-seats-11134/

Overview

• PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Candidates from as many as 125 political parties in Haiti on Thursday rushed to meet a deadline to register to run in the country’s long-overdue elections later this year.
  
  The Caribbean island has a history of turbulent elections, but that does not appear to dissuade candidates.
  
  By late afternoon more than 2,000 people had registered for 119 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 20 open Senate seats, according to officials.
  
  Lines at the electoral office in Port au Prince poured into the street during the day. The deadline to register for the Aug. 9 legislative elections was set to expire at midnight.
  
  “Individual people are allowed to form political parties,” said Yolette Mengual, expressing a hint of resignation. Mengual, a member of the provisional electoral council that organizes the elections, said each party will be listed numerically on the ballot.
  
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