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Weekly Report - 27 February 2014 (WR-14-08)
HAITI: Obama’s optimism proves premature
Earlier this month President Michel Martelly met US President Barack Obama in Washington – the first meeting between the two leaders at the White House since Martelly took office in May 2011. Top of the agenda (and a major concern for the international community) was Haiti’s need to stage long-overdue elections to fill a third of the 30-member senate (whose terms expired in May 2012) and dozens of local government posts. President Obama declared himself “very encouraged” vis-à-vis progress made on an election law passed last December [WR-13-50], considered essential to the electoral process. However, the subsequent breakdown of national talks between the executive and legislature (at loggerheads for most of Martelly’s mandate), to finalise the deal to hold the vote, has again raised doubts as to whether these elections will take place.
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