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Tension ahead of Haiti Senate election

Published:Friday | April 17, 2009 | 6:16 PM

Tensions are reportedly running high in Haiti ahead of Sunday\'s Senate elections.



Some members of the Lavalas Family party of former President Jean Bertrand Aristide have threatened to disrupt the voting process to protest their exclusion from the election.



In February the electoral council rejected the candidacy of all candidates of the Lavalas party.