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STORY: HAITI / MARTELLY MANIGOT WRAP
TRT: 2:08
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: CREOLE / NATS
DATELINE: 5 APRIL 2011, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
1. Wide shot, Michel Martelly in press conference room
2. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Michel Martelly, President Elect of Haiti:
“I will be the President of all Haitians without distinction. Together we will walk, united, for our flag, for the homeland.”
3. Med shot, supporter amongst photographers
4. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Michel Martelly, President Elect of Haiti:
“It will be my role, as president, to make sure that everything goes well, in harmony, and that we accompany MINUSTAH, so that it accompanies us in terms of security and development. And that we also accompany it in its exit strategy, as mentioned it during the campaign.”
5. Wide shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Michel Martelly, President Elect of Haiti:
“I am asking all the Haitian people, wherever they come from, of all ages, and from all social groups, to make this day, a special day. To stop thinking about yourself, but start thinking about your community and your country, so that together we can move forward.”
7. Wide shot, journalists
8. Wide shot, Mirlande Manigat arriving in press conference room
9. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Mirlande Manigat, defeated presidential candidate:
"Until yesterday morning, it was well known to all that I had won the presidential elections."
10. Cutaway, man listening
11. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Mirlande Manigat, defeated presidential candidate:
"This is the first time that I have seen how money, corruption, threats were used to give this results. This is the first time I have seen a robbery of this kind in the political situation in Haiti."
12. Wide shot, audience applauding
13. VOXPOP (Creole) Man:
“Mister Michel Martelly, President of Haiti. This is not only for one person, but for all the Haitian people.”
14. VOXPOP (Creole) Woman:
“He has been doing many things for the country already. For example when the Nerette School collapsed, he and his wife were the first ones to bring help.”
15. Wide shot, crowd in the street
The United Nations peacekeeping operation in Haiti (MINUSTAH) today (5 Apr) welcomed the release of the preliminary results of the country’s presidential and legislative elections and urged Haitians to continue to show patience and calm in the lead-up to the release of final results.
The popular musician Michel Martelly defeated former first lady Mirlande Manigat in last month’s run-off round of the presidential race, according to figures released yesterday by Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council.
In his acceptance speech, Martelly said that he will be “the President of all Haitians without distinction” and will work together with The UN mission (MINUSTAH) “in terms of security and development.”
He also said that, as promised during his presidential campaign, he will cooperate with MINUSTAH in formulating its exit strategy.
He called on the Haitian people ”to make this day, a special day” and “stop thinking about yourself, but start thinking about your community and your country, so that together we can move forward.”
Defeated presidential candidate and former first lady Mirlande Manigat, at another press conference, called the results declaring Martelly as a winner “a robbery of this kind in the political situation in Haiti."
MINUSTAH issued a press statement in which it “salutes the fact that Haitian political actors welcomed this announcement with maturity, demonstrating their wish to respect the voice of the people and the democratic process.”
According to MINUSTAH, the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, have been relatively calm since the announcement of the results, with no major incidents reported so far.
Violence erupted last December after Martelly supporters challenged the initial results of the first round of the presidential election, which placed him third – and therefore out of the run-off round – behind Manigat and another candidate, Jude Celestin.
The Provisional Electoral Council re-examined the ballots and amended the results, placing Martelly second to Manigat in the first round.
In today’s statement, MINUSTAH praised Haitians for showing so much patience and calm in recent weeks and urged them to continue to do so when the final results are released on 18 April.
The mission added that any candidates in the presidential or legislative elections who dispute the preliminary results should pursue their claims in line with the provisions of Haiti’s electoral laws.
Haitians went to the polls after a year in which they were battered by a massive earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people and left at least 2.3 million others homeless. A subsequent cholera epidemic killed another 4,000 people.
