The mission’s statement came a day after the electoral council in this Caribbean nation barred the groups, including Lavalas, the influential party of exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who called the decision “an electoral coup d’etat.”
Lavalas, which gets strong support from poor people in the capital, previously was banned from the 2006 presidential election, and it boycotted Senate run-off ballots last June after the council disqualified its candidates on a technicality.
The Lespwa movement that formed around President Rene Preval when he ran for president in 2004 was also was banned from next year’s vote.
The council would say only that the 17 groups were excluded from the legislative elections because they submitted improper documents.
The U.N. mission issued a non-confrontational statement that did not mentions any groups or politicians by name, asking only that Haitian officials avoid making decisions that might hint at unequal treatment. It also requested that officials review documents from all parties with openness and equality.
At a news conference Friday, the electoral council said its decision was irreversible. It said the Department of Legal Affairs would answer questions about why some parties were excluded and 53 were authorized to participate. The department did not issue any statements Friday, and its officials could not be reached.
The U.N. mission said it would meet with all those involved to ensure free and fair legislative elections, which are now scheduled for Feb. 28 but might be postponed to coincide with a presidential ballot later next year.
The 9,000-member U.N. peacekeeping force deployed in Haiti after Aristide was ousted in a 2004 rebellion.
Legislators in the politically unstable country, one of the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, chose a new prime minister last week as tension remain high over the presence of the peacekeepers. Jean-Max Bellerive is the sixth person to hold that post since 2004.
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“The U.N. mission issued a non-confrontational statement that did not mentions any groups or politicians by name, asking only that Haitian officials avoid making decisions that might hint at unequal treatment. It also requested that officials review documents from all parties with openness and equality.”
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So long as the UN remain non-confrontational, Preval will continue to pour liquefied feces down their throat and they will murmur their appreciation for his recognition of the need for “Democratic Continuity.”
Preval has effectively given the United Nations “the finger” and they bend to kiss his ring, or other parts of his body.
If they allow Preval’s theft of the February elections, the nation will percolate until the fall school-opening period, then erupt in a massive explosion.
Perhaps this is what Preval and his entourage really want. Then they will claim they are the only ones who can control the Mob and MINUSTAH will probably agree – again! This will lead to a further deterioration and eruption that even MINUSTAH will not be able to control, without massive losses of life.
Preval’s cynically generated Misery will see his destruction along with his courtesan Elizabeth Delatour-Preval.