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Preval declared Haiti president after vote deal
(AP\AFP)
Updated: 2006-02-17 09:24
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| Haitian President-elect Rene
Preval talks with associates at his sister's home in Port-au-Prince
February 16, 2006. Haiti declared Preval president on Thursday after
authorities agreed to throw out 85,000 'blank' votes from last week's
election. The Brazilian-brokered deal averted possible widespread violence
after Preval had condemned 'massive fraud' in the Feb. 7 election and
thousands of angry supporters had poured out of Haiti's teeming slums to
demand he be given a first-round
victory.[AFP] |
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