journalist Amy Wilentz
the Los Angeles Times wrote this weekend that " according to several sources, including the president himself, the international community has threatened to exile immediate Preval s it does not submit its interpretation of election results. "
We understand that the" international community "as part of this text is primarily in the United States, France and Canada, the three countries identified by the OAS to proceed with the recount of votes the first round. Of the seven specialists participating in this exercise 6 were from these three countries. It is pertinent to note that France, not part of the OAS member countries, has nevertheless been involved in this operation. Come find out why?
Yesterday, the Council United Nations Security, the representative of the United States, Rice, demanded that President Preval accepts in its entirety the report of the OAS, which eliminates the second round participation of the government candidate, Jude Celestin, for that of Martelly , the singer, who came third in the first round. The link to the third candidate for the OAS wants to move into second place describes somewhat the character he is.
"The U.S. ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, demanded that the Haitian authorities" a process credible that represents the will of the Haitian people. " Rice, speaking before the Security Council, called the Haitian electoral council to "implement the recommendations of the OAS," which found fraud. "We urge Haitian authorities to define a clear path that will lead quickly to the inauguration of a democratically elected and legitimate," she said, calling for the establishment of a "credible timetable." Le Devoir, 21 Jan
There is no doubt in the mind of Ms. Rice that the process can not be credible in the context of full acceptance of the Report of the OAS, the main perpetrators are agents of the United States, France and Canada. At the hearing, the urgency of a " democratically elected government and legitimate " is clearly at the heart of its concerns and those of the Government it represents.
In a paper published recently , I report data from an independent study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). The authors ask how the OAS present as an observer at the first ballot, and the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) have been able to recognize the validity of the first round. With a turnout of 22.9%, many frauds at all levels of the parties, and giving results for the second round of candidates collecting only 6% and 4% of the total electorate of Haiti, we can not but wonder how to recognize an expression of true democracy whose foundation is the " People Power for the people ? Rightly the authors of the study of ERCP are questioning the validity of such election.
" Based on the number of irregularities, it is impossible to determine who should enter the second round. If there is a second ballot will be based on assumptions and / or arbitrary exclusions. The report notes that the biggest problems in the electoral process took place before the day of suffrage: the prohibition of voting a dozen parties (including the most popular party), and "gargantuan task" of attempting to save hundreds of thousands of people displaced within the country, a task that was clearly a failure. "
Again, it must be noted, the international community, in this case boils down to the will of the United States and its closest allies. They have nothing to do with a democratically elected and legitimate. What they want is to keep control of power in Haiti. The same pressures and threats exerted on the current President indicate how far they are willing to go to keep that control. believe they accommodate themselves more easily with a Jean-Claude Duvalier, dictator-looking a repentant .
Oscar
Fortin Quebec, January 21, 2011
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