Update: Que vas tu faire, Mr. Le President?

The American Embassy and the Private Sector Economic Forum have both released statements saying the announced results do not correlate with most other results which confirmed a Manigat-Martelly second round. This morning again, people have taken to the streets, some chanting peacefully (see video below), others taking the 'kraze brize" route (break and destroy). One source living near the Provisional Electoral Council (PEC) office in Petionville reports fire burning, roads blocked, and people yelling: "KEP, KEP LEU NOU VOTE NOU PA JOUER..." (PEC, PEC,when we vote we don't mess around).

No one is messing around, Mr. Preval. People made it clear from the beginning: Jude Pap Pase (Jude will not go through). So what will you do now, Mr. Preval? Leave? No, that would be too easy. Perhaps it's time for a sacrifice. Perhaps it's time for Jude Celestin to remove himself from the race? Prophet N has received word that Preval is indeed contemplating such a move, but only he knows what he will actually do... 
 

Have your say, America.

"Like others, the Government of the United States is concerned by the Provisional Electoral Council's announcement of preliminary results from the November 28 national elections that are inconsistent with the published results of the National Election Observation Council (CNO), which had more than 5,500 observers and observed the vote count in 1,600 voting centers nationwide, election-day observations by official U.S. observers accredited bythe CEP, and vote counts observed around the country by numerous domestic and international observers."
Source: Unites States Embassy in Haiti Website http://haiti.usembassy.gov/press-releases-2012/untitled6.html

Ayayay Haiti, encore de la misere pour toi

My sister looks up in shock as we hear gunshots near the house. I'm on the phone with my aunt who is hiding in her house in the middle of Petion-Ville, hiding from the gunshots, the bullets falling into her yard, the tires burning in front of the gate. I can't even imagine how scary this must be for people living in tents, no shelter against the fire, against the rocks, against the rage.    

Why isn't Michel Martelly already on the radio telling his supporters to calm down? To stop destroying the little we have left of a country?

Resultats Preliminaires - Breaking News

1 Mirlande Manigat: 31.37 %
2 Jude Celestin: 22.48%
3 Michel Martelly: 21.89%

Jude pase. Sak pral pase?

lose-lose situation?

Provisional results are to be announced today. The city is relatively calm, as schools are closed and people are heading home early. Opinions differ about what may or may not happen: if Jude Celestin goes through, there will be trouble. If Jude Celestin doesn't go through, there may or may not be trouble.

But no matter what happens, Haiti doesn't win. No matter what happens, our future leader will have been elected through a highly tainted, highly controversial election. He/She will have lost a certain degree of credibility and trust, adding yet another item to the list of challenges that awaits him/her. And once again, Haiti will be an example of ways not to do things.