Election results expected in Haiti Sunday Associated Press
Published: Sunday, February 12, 2006
PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Final election results are expected today in Haiti, where former president Rene Preval has a big lead.
The question now is whether he won enough votes to avoid a runoff.
Preval has nearly half of the nearly 1.5 million votes counted so far out of nearly 1.8 million cast.
The second place candidate has about 12 per cent of the vote, and all the other hopefuls are in single digits.
The winning candidate needs 50 per cent plus one vote to avoid a March runoff with the second-place finisher.
Yesterday, thousands of chanting Preval supporters marched from a seaside slum past the national palace in a victory celebration.
Haiti has been descending into anarchy without an elected leadership since President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted two years ago.
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