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- WORLD, Page 64World NotesHAITISliding Toward The Abyss
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- The promise of democracy was deferred again in Haiti two
- weeks ago as the Electoral Council announced that elections
- scheduled for Nov. 4 would be postponed until perhaps December
- because of a lack of funds. The news threatened to unravel the
- caretaker administration of President Ertha Pascal Trouillot,
- whose six-month-old transition government has already been
- tarnished by charges of corruption and incompetence. "She
- cannot make good on her pledge to hold genuine elections, so
- her administration has lost its reason to exist," observed
- Gerard Pierre-Charles, a left-wing political analyst. "We are
- sliding inexorably toward the temptation of a military coup."
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- A former Supreme Court judge who was appointed last March
- by the Unity Assembly, Trouillot was expected to lead Haiti to
- free elections. But some of her erstwhile supporters are having
- doubts. Seven political parties in the Assembly have called for
- her resignation and threatened to boycott the vote if she is
- still President.
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