Don't let politicians manipulate you to make disorder. The final results will come. |
I cannot answer to those problems but we are going to set up a commission to investigate the problem. |
If there is one threat to the holding of elections as scheduled, it is the security situation. |
If you include all the fraudulent documents, about 80 percent of Haitians have no reliable identity documents at all. |
In public, the date is still Jan. 8, but in private, everybody knows that this won't be the case, and that we probably won't even be able to announce a new date for the elections by then. |
The CEP was not handling the ballots. |
The goal from the first was to create a reliable identity card for the first time in this country's history. How can you run elections if you can't even identify most of your electorate? We had a situation in the past where people would go to a government office and get four, five, six identity documents under different names. |
The people and the candidates want to have the elections and we are ready. |
The pressure of the street made us lose one week of work and put us behind in our plans to hold the runoff on March 19. |
This election has to be like a lighthouse for the future of the country. Most of the past elections have been fraudulent. That is why the economy and society is in shambles today. This needs to be a new starting point. |
We've lost all of our workers. They're afraid to come in now, and they don't want to work. I still think we can finish the process, probably with each of the leading candidates looking at each ballot and making a decision we can all live with. |