Weekly Report - 11 October 2005

Prime Minister Gérard Latortue is expected to announce, as this issue goes to press, that the first round of elections, scheduled for 20 November, is to be postponed. Though ostensibly in order to allow time for more people to register as voters, part of the reason may be the pressure on the interim government to review what appears to be a deliberate policy to exclude potentially winning candidates from Lavalas, the party of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.