{"id":48587,"date":"2015-11-10T09:15:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T16:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=48587"},"modified":"2015-11-10T09:57:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T16:57:29","slug":"haitis-elections-remain-fraught-with-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2015\/11\/10\/haitis-elections-remain-fraught-with-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiti&#8217;s Elections Remain Fraught With Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia801508.us.archive.org\/25\/items\/uprising_2015_11_10\/Brian_Concannon_Jr_2015_11_10.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia801508.us.archive.org\/25\/items\/uprising_2015_11_10\/uprising_2015_11_10.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Brian Concannon Jr.<\/strong>, Executive director of the Institute for Justice &#038; Democracy in Haiti. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Haitians are out en masse protesting their nation&#8217;s election results, contending fraud. Thousands gathered on the streets of Port Au Prince for a general strike on Monday. A first round of Presidential elections was held on October 25th, with current President Michel Martelly&#8217;s favored candidate Jovenel Moise coming ahead with enough votes to make it to a run-off. <\/p>\n<p>Former President Jean Bertrand Aristide, late in the campaign, threw his Lavalas Party&#8217;s backing behind Dr. Maryse Narcisse, but she was edged out by Jude Celestin. Runoff elections are scheduled for December 27th. But with thousands demanding a recount, or even a revote over election fraud allegations, it remains to be seen how it all turns out. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Parliamentary elections results were also announced late last week and among the winners were Martelly&#8217;s party. Haiti has had a history fraught with election fraud, violence, and foreign-backed coups. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, vist <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijdh.org\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ijdh.org<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Brian Concannon Jr., Executive director of the Institute for Justice &#038; Democracy in Haiti. Haitians are out en masse protesting their nation&#8217;s election results, contending fraud. Thousands gathered on the streets of Port Au Prince for a general strike on Monday. A first round of Presidential elections was held on October 25th, with current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48592,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48587\/revisions\/48592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}