OAS to make report on Haitian election

The BBC is reporting that the Organisation of American States is set to recommend that the governing party candidate in Haiti's presidential election should be dropped from the run-off vote.



Provisional results said Jude Celestin came second in the first round to the former First Lady, Mirlande Manigat.



However, OAS monitors found that the opposition candidate Michel Martelly won more votes.



The OAS was asked to review the result after violent protests.



Martelly's supporters rioted in several cities and clashed with UN peacekeepers after he said he had been wrongly denied victory.



At least five people were killed.



The November 28 poll was widely denounced, with reports of ballot box stuffing and violence and intimidation at polling stations.