Votes from Sunday’s election were tabulated yesterday in Port-au-Prince. Results are not expected until Dec. 7.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The streets of Haiti’s capital were mostly quiet yesterday, as the international observers who monitored Sunday’s tumultuous elections called for the vote-counting to continue and results to be respected, saying they had witnessed irregularities but not the “massive fraud’’ alleged by most of the country’s presidential candidates.
Those findings challenged a statement made Sunday by 12 of the 19 presidential candidates that called for the election to be invalidated. They said the government of outgoing President Rene Preval had rigged the process to install his protege, Jude Celestin.
Ambassador Colin Granderson, the head of a joint monitoring team from the Organization of American States and the Caribbean Community, said yesterday that the candidates’ statement was “precipitous, hasty, and regrettable.’’
Granderson said the group, which had 120 observers stationed around the country, reported problems at the polls, but not so many as to warrant a complete annulment of the vote.
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