Ever since Haiti’s independence, they have been facing political corruption. Examples are the multiple coups that have thrown leaders out, presidents who proclaimed themselves dictators, and officials who have made Haitians their minions. Currently, there is a voting crisis in the presidential election. The voter turnout is low with about 25-30% of the population that are eligible to vote. Each of the 54 presidential candidates received over 13,700 passes for poll watching. Political parties sold some passes to the highest bidder in the days leading up to the election.The 13,700 campaign-employed poll watchers accounted for about 739,800 votes casted. The Martelly opposition believe that 50% of the voters were paid participants, even though
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Eight presidential candidates have demanded changes in Haiti's electoral council and if that does not happen soon, they have called for a transitional government to create and adopt a new constitution, make many reforms and organize "credible" elections within two years. This transitional government would temporarily replace the Haitian government so that the real government would have time to stabilize. Stabilization could mean educating the electorate and public officials on how to correctly run campaigns in a honest manner. The problem with transitional governments, though, is that they are supposed to be temporary but stabilization can take a long time. Haiti has had political problems since 1804, and to say that democracy will quickly stabilize is a mere prediction. The current presidential elections will be delayed for an unpredictable amount of time and simply replacing the corrupt government with an elite temporary one won’t change much. Two years seems like an unrealistic time frame, considering that the transitional government may not even be effective among the population or officials. Retraining and educating officials and the electoral committee may teach them how to run a clean campaign, but it won’t necessarily stop them from continuing to alter
Eight presidential candidates have demanded changes in Haiti's electoral council and if that does not happen soon, they have called for a transitional government to create and adopt a new constitution, make many reforms and organize "credible" elections within two years. This transitional government would temporarily replace the Haitian government so that the real government would have time to stabilize. Stabilization could mean educating the electorate and public officials on how to correctly run campaigns in a honest manner. The problem with transitional governments, though, is that they are supposed to be temporary but stabilization can take a long time. Haiti has had political problems since 1804, and to say that democracy will quickly stabilize is a mere prediction. The current presidential elections will be delayed for an unpredictable amount of time and simply replacing the corrupt government with an elite temporary one won’t change much. Two years seems like an unrealistic time frame, considering that the transitional government may not even be effective among the population or officials. Retraining and educating officials and the electoral committee may teach them how to run a clean campaign, but it won’t necessarily stop them from continuing to alter