Haitian general election, 2000
- Haitian general election, 2000
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 [Daniel P. Erikson, "Haiti after Aristide: Still on the Brink," Currently History, February 2005] . 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 [http://www.haitipolicy.org/archives/Archives/June-August2000/oas9.htm] , 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 [Michele Wucker, "Haiti: So Many Missteps," World Policy Journal, Spring 2004: 46.] . According to Centre for International Policy the elections were Haiti's best so far. [ [http://newleftreview.org/A2507 New Left Review - Peter Hallward: Option Zero in Haiti ] ]
Results
Presidential
The presidential election took place on November 26, 2000.
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