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Haiti's general elections of 2000 featured elections for the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate on May 21, as well as a presidential race in November. Although the legislative elections in May had been delayed several times and irregularities were reported on voting day, the balloting was initially judged to be free and fair[1]. However, there was controversy after the election regarding the decision of the Provisional Electoral Council to declare first-round winners in a number of disputed senate seats (rather than hold a second round of run-off elections), leading to allegations of electoral fraud. The OAS electoral observation mission ultimately released a critical report[1], which contributed to the U.S. decision to suspend aid to Haiti in 2000. In the presidential elections that followed on November 26, the opposition parties boycotted the election, which partly explains the landslide victory of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. There is a dispute about the nature of the 2000 elections. Some say that the Lavalas party and Aristide were violating democracy (for example, refusing to hold run-offs in the senate, intimidating opponents etc.) while other commentators think that opposition - representatives of Haiti's economic elite - refused to participate in democratic elections since they knew that they would lose them. An article in the New Left Review holds, that the problem the OAS found in the legislative elections would not have had an effect on the results; the OAS itself reached the same conclusion[2]. According to Centre for International Policy the elections were Haiti's best so far.[3]
[edit] Results
[edit] Presidential
The presidential election took place on November 26, 2000.
| Candidate |
Party |
Votes |
% |
| Jean-Bertrand Aristide |
Fanmi Lavalas |
2,632,534 |
91.81% |
| Arnold Dumas |
Independent |
56,678 |
2.04% |
| Evan Nicolas |
UNR |
45,441 |
1.55% |
| Serge Sylvain |
Independent |
37,371 |
1.30% |
| Calixte Dorisca |
Independent |
36,233 |
1.26% |
| Jacques Philippe Dorce |
Independent |
32,245 |
1.12% |
| Paul Arthur Fleurival |
Independent |
31,100 |
1.08% |
| Totals |
|
2,871,602 |
|
Sources: [2] and [3]
[edit] Chamber of Deputies
| Party |
Seats |
% |
| Fanmi Lavalas |
73 |
-- |
| MOCHRENA |
3 |
-- |
| Open the Gates Party |
2 |
-- |
| Spapce of Conderted Action |
2 |
-- |
| Koordinasyon Resistans Grandans |
1 |
-- |
| Organisation of Struggling People |
1 |
-- |
| Non-partisans |
1 |
-- |
| Totals |
83 |
-- |
Source: [4]
[edit] Senate
| Party |
Seats |
% |
| Fanmi Lavalas |
26 |
-- |
| Pati Louvri Baryé |
1 |
-- |
| Totals |
27 |
-- |
[edit] References
