HAITI: HAITIAN PRESIDENT JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE VOTES IN ELECTION TO SELECT SUCCESSOR.
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HAITI: HAITIAN PRESIDENT JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE VOTES IN ELECTION TO SELECT SUCCESSOR.
- Title: HAITI: HAITIAN PRESIDENT JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE VOTES IN ELECTION TO SELECT SUCCESSOR.
- Date: 17th December 1995
- Summary: PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI (DECEMBER 17, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV EXT. POLLING STATION, SECURITY 0.03 2. SV HAITIAN PRESIDENT JEAN BERTRAND ARISTIDE WALKING INTO POLLING BOOTH/SV SECURITY (2 SHOTS) 0.11 3. SV/MCU ARISTIDE AT POLLING BOOTH WITH BALLOT PAPER/ ARISTIDE WALKS TO VOTE BEHIND SCREEN (3 SHOTS) 0.46 4. SV ARISTIDE PLACING VOTE INTO BOX/ZOOM OUT (3 SHOTS) 1.03 5. SV MEDIA/ ARISTIDE TALKING ABOUT THE PRIORITIES FOR THE COUNTRY BEING EMPLOYMENT, HOUSING AND JUSTICE (FRENCH) 1.35 6. SLV U.N. REPRESENTATIVES OUTSIDE POLLING STATION 1.36 7. SECURITY JOG ALONGSIDE CAR OF ARISTIDE AS HE LEAVES 1.57 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
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- Country: Haiti CARIBBEAN
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- Story Text: Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide cast his vote on Sunday (December 17) in first round balloting to pick his successor in the presidential election.
Aristide won Haiti's first free and fair presidential election in 1990 but was forced from office by a military coup in September 1991. He was restored under a U.S.-led military occupation in October 1994.
Constitutionally barred from seeking a second consecutive term, Aristide is expected to be succeeded by former prime minister Rene Preval, the candidate of Aristide's Lavalas political movement.
Preval's commanding 64.5 percent support in a poll last week of capital residents, if maintained nationwide, would ensure him of a landslide victory over the field of 13 other candidates.
Election officials said 3.6 million Haitians -- about 97 percent of the electorate -- have registered to vote.
Maurice Jeudi, a member of Haiti's electoral council that organised the elections, said on Sunday he expected a strong turnout and fair balloting. "Many people will vote today, in Port-au-Prince and across the country," he said.
U.S. officials visiting polling sites expected the election to be peaceful and fair. The polls close at 6:00 p.m., and official results were not expected to be released until December 27.
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