Haiti: Preval Party Wins Senate Seats  · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

Repeating Islands notes that “preliminary results from last week’s run-off elections in Haiti indicate that President René Preval’s party won five of 11 contests to fill open Senate seats”, but adds that “there have been…threats from other senators to block the seating…because of the extremely low voter turnout in the run-offs…”