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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Jan 21, 2016
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• Category : Haiti News
• Description : Jamaica Observer
  Thursday, January 21, 2016 | 12:51 PM
  
  Photo: Haitian police stand in front of the Haitian Parliament, in Port-au-Prince, on January 11, 2016, during a protest against the first session of the Parliament. (Photo: AFP)
• Location : Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti
• Website : http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Haiti-plunges-on-with-poll-despite-opposition-boycott

Overview

• PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) — Haiti's outgoing president brushed aside street protests, boycott threats and fraud claims Thursday to push ahead with plans to elect his successor this weekend.
  
  Michel Martelly, who is constitutionally barred from seeking re-election himself, dismissed opposition demands that he postpone Sunday's presidential run-off.
  
  "We're fully ready," the former popular singer-turned-president insisted. "From the point of view of the state, we have a responsibility to organize elections."
  
  His decision will reassure Haiti's main foreign sponsor, the United States, which this week said the government had already made "numerous concessions" to opposition concerns.
  
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