With NO political experience 
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A 48-year-old banana plantation owner with no government experience has won Haiti’s rerun presidential election, Haitian officials said Monday. [sounds like haiti has its own trump to deal with]
Jovenel Moïse, a candidate under the political party started by former President Michel Martelly, received 55.67 percent of the votes in the Nov. 20 elections, beating out 26 other candidates including opposition leader Jude Célestin, who finished a distant second with 19.52 percent.
The preliminary results announced Monday by Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) came after an hours long debate among members behind closed doors and eight days after voters went to the polls. Results of the previous election, held Oct. 25, 2015, were tossed out after opposition candidates, human rights and religious groups claimed widespread fraud. The allegations triggered violent protests, calls for a recount and eventually led to a provisional government.
Speaking moments after the announcement at a luxury Petionville hotel, Moïse reiterated elements of his campaign stump speech. Surrounded by members of Martelly’s Haiti Bald Headed Party (PHTK) and wife Martine, he called on Haitians in and out of the country to help him mobilize the country’s resources to put “food on the plates of the people and money in their pockets.”
While the selection of Moïse, who won with a margin wide enough to eliminate a runoff, means Haiti will have an elected president for the first time in a year should the results hold and he is sworn in on Feb. 7, some fear his first-round win in an election with a 21 percent voter turnout will not guarantee political stability.
Also clouding the political waters is the disagreement among the CEP;s nine members. Three of four members who initially refused to sign off on the elections results, in the end did not validate the results.
“It will be difficult for Jovenel, “ said political analyst Fritz Dorvilier, who teaches sociology at the State University of Haiti in Port-au-Prince. “You will have a profound uniting of the opposition; they will do all that is possible to not accept the results.”
Dorvilier, who believes a second round would have helped lowered rising tensions and been the “politically correct” thing to do, said he worries Moïse’s win will further “plunge Haiti deeper into political instability.”
Banana farmer wins Haiti presidency, according to preliminary results
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