Who the Heck Voted for Michel Martelly
- 22
- Jan
According to a report published by Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) after the last elections, 4.5 million Haitians were registered to vote in 2010.
At the run-off, only a million had actually casted their vote at the voting booths. Out of these one million votes, 50.000 were declared invalid due to frauds and irregularities.
One million represent 22% of the entire electorate. 50.000 of invalid votes makes up about 5% of the million meaning only 17% of Haitians voted for either Mr. Martelly or Mme. Manigat and thus 3.5 million had decided not to vote.
The “”One Million”” were fed up with the traditional politic in Haiti. They needed something new, someone with whom they could connect; they proudly took the first one million steps toward the build back of their country.
They wanted that change; Mr. Martelly was that man and the people bid and bet on him regardless of bad media branding and forecasting his past as a pure symbol of immorality.
Obviously, among these 3.5 million were women, Christians, and students who felt Mme Manigat did not have enough balls and money to fight against the few who were determined to divorce with conventional politicians.
The other 3.5 million were all cowards; instead of going to the booths to make their voice heard, they chose to waive their voting rights, leaving to a small percentage the opportunities to steer the destiny of the country.
Today, they are standing against the administration of Mr. Martelly, calling him homosexual, drug dealers, crack head among others negative characters.
There were also members and fans of INITE who had no apparent reason to vote because Jude Celestin was no longer on the ballot.
Those who should be allowed to complain should be the ones who voted and those who did note must forever hold their peace for their inaction had played at Mr. Martelly’s advantage. They are the ones who unintentionally voted Mr. Martelly as the President of Haiti.
If Mr. Martelly happens to lead the country as bad as the previous Presidents did or if NGOs end up taking over the land, they [3.5 million] should be the ones to be held responsible because they had the power to vote for a person they felt who could talk the talk and walk the walk but they failed to do so in a period the country needed a boost from his sons and daughters.
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