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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Oct 08, 2015
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• Category : Haiti News
• Description : The Washington Post
  
  By David McFadden | AP October 6
  
  Photo: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, shakes hand with Haiti’s President Michel Martelly at his arrival at the national Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, October 6, 2015. Kerry stopped briefly in Haiti to discuss preparations for the country’s upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) (Associated Press)
• Location : Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti
• Website : https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/kerry-to-stop-in-haiti-to-discuss-election-preparations/2015/10/06/d8e1abcc-6

Overview

• PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stopped in Haiti’s capital on Tuesday to discuss preparations for the country’s upcoming elections and encourage people to refrain from disrupting balloting after a messy parliamentary first round in August.
  
  In some districts, legislative elections held Aug. 9 were so plagued with disorder and voter intimidation that makeup elections will have to be held in more than two dozen constituencies. Monitors with the Organization of American States said the irregularities were not enough to invalidate overall results.
  
  “Haiti needs governing institutions that are legitimate and representative, and those cannot come into being without free and fair elections that take part without intimidation, without violence,” Kerry said on the grounds of Haiti’s National Palace in Port-au-Prince.
  
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