Haitians Leery of 2nd Election Round Amid Violence, CBS News (2009)
Eleven vacant seats in the 30-member Senate are on the line, and with them, President Rene Preval's hopes of overpowering uncooperative legislators and pushing through internationally backed economic reforms and constitutional amendments that would give his successors more power. But many Haitians are wary of voting following weeks of clashes, at least one of them deadly, between anti-government protesters and security forces, as well as fights between political parties that have left at least two people dead in provincial areas.
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