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2000-06

The head of the electoral council flees after a palace summons

Haitian

Leon Manus, president of Haiti’s provisional electoral council, had at first defended the way the senate votes of May 2000 were counted. After studying the law he concluded the method was illegal and that only five senators had genuinely been elected in the first round. The council claimed nineteen. He refused to certify the result. He was summoned to the national palace, where by his own account President Rene Preval threatened him in person and Jean Bertrand Aristide did the same by telephone, giving him an ultimatum and warning that the capital and the provincial cities would be engulfed in fire and blood unless the results were announced at once. Manus left secretly for the Dominican Republic and then the United States with American diplomatic help. From New York he wrote to the president of the senate listing stolen ballot boxes, destroyed tally sheets, and police who watched torn ballots cover the streets of Port-au-Prince.

Source  ·  p. 117 Fatton, 117