NICOLE wcta's List: Haiti Politics

• On Wednesday in Haiti, in the island-nation's capital of Port-Au-Prince, thousands of livid and destitute Haitians assembled in mobs and filled the streets protesting the recent election results they say were rigged by the current ruling government coalition.
• On Wednesday in Haiti, in the island-nation's capital of Port-Au-Prince, thousands of livid and destitute Haitians assembled in mobs and filled the streets protesting the recent election results they say were rigged by the current ruling government coalition.
• angrily hurled stones at and set fire to the current ruling government coalition's headquarters

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• an election in which thousands of people were turned away from the polls

• Between 700 and 1,000 protesters staged their second march in three days in   the capital to demand the cancellation of the troubled November 28   elections.

• The electoral commission said the March 20 runoff would feature former first lady Mirlande Manigat against Michel Martelly
• Jude Celestin is out of the race.

• At least one person was reported dead in the renewed violence
• two candidates had made it into a runoff: Mirlande Manigat, a former first lady, and Jude Célestin, the candidate of current President René Préval's party