Haiti hails presidential vote without violence

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Source: AFP via Yahoo

Port-au-Prince (AFP) - Haiti celebrated peaceful elections with robust turnout as the poorest country in the Americas seeks to shed chronic political instability and get back on its feet.

Provisional Electoral Council President Pierre-Louis Opont praised the "exploit" of a peaceful election.

"We would like to thank the voters who stayed calm and hopefully were able to choose the country's new leaders for the next few years," he said.

In Port-au-Prince, people stood in long lines outside polling stations, a sight unseen in Haiti in more than a decade.

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