Final results: Pop star declared Haitian president

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: AP

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Michel Martelly, a popular singer known by the stage name "Sweet Micky," was officially declared the next president of this earthquake-devastated country, election officials said.

Martelly won the presidency with 67.6 percent of the vote, defeating rival candidate and former first lady Mirlande Manigat, Haitian electoral commission spokesman Pierre Thibault said Wednesday.

The announcement ends a long, drawn-out election that began Nov. 28 and was marred by fraud and other irregularities, several days of rioting and numerous delays.

After election officials released preliminary results on April 6 showing that Martelly, 50, defeated his opponent with nearly 68 percent of the vote, Manigat said she wouldn't contest the results.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110421/ap_on_bi_ge/cb_haiti_elections

[ReturnoftheDjedi]

1. so, Wyclef would have won??

[EFerrari]

2. All those numbers but not the turnout which was less than a quarter

of eligible voters.