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A proposed delay to the announcement of Haiti’s election results has been met with fierce criticism from some of the candidates.
A spokesman for Marcel Martelly, the candidate who came third, told Al Jazeera on Sunday that the results must be declared soon after Christmas so that the run-off candidates can return to the campaign trail.
“They have to come up with a result in a couple of days because the candidates will need time to go again out to the street to talk to the people,” Daniel Supplice, a senior advisor to Martelly, said.
“I believe on the 26th [of December] or 27th at the most the result has to come out, because the second turn of the election will be January 16.”
His comments follow a request by the Organisation of American States (OAS) to Rene Preval, the Haitian president, to delay announcing election results until an international panel of experts can review the vote.
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