PORT AU PRINCE (Reuters) - The musician Michel Martelly is the winner of Haiti's presidential elections, beating the former first Mirlande Manigat lady as official preliminary results, an official said Monday Provisional Electoral Council.
"Martelly won," he told Reuters in the Provisional Electoral Council official, who requested anonymity. His remarks came hours before the official announcement, which would provide the expected preliminary results of voting on March 20 in the volatile Caribbean nation.
Martelly, who has no previous experience of government, presented in his campaign a strong message of change, promising to break with decades of corruption and misrule in Haiti.
A blackened eager anticipation of fear of violence gripped the country since last week postponed the preliminary results because of reports of high levels of fraud.
The first results are preliminary, pending final confirmation during the month of April.
presidential elections have presented a curious contrast of styles and personalities between the outgoing Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly, 50, and newcomer to politics, and experienced law professor and former senator Manigat, 70.
polls before the second round showed Martelly as a favorite.
The UN peacekeepers patrol the capital, Port-au-Prince and other possible points of conflict around the country, one of the poorest in the world and struggling to rebuild after a devastating earthquake in 2010.
Some shops and businesses protected their windows with boards in anticipation of riots and said that soon sent home to their employees, before the results were published.
"steps have been taken regarding security," he told Reuters Ambassador Colin Granderson, head of the observer mission of American States and the Caribbean Community for Haiti's elections.
Granderson said the Provisional Electoral Council, the body responsible for announcing the results Preliminary, had not received the envelope with data tabulation center in Port au Prince, where he has made the final count.
United Nations and donor governments, including the United States who have pledged billions of dollars in reconstruction funds for the country, want the elections produce a stable and legitimate leadership that is responsible for recovery.
These states and organizations want to avoid the riots and allegations of fraud that tainted the first round of voting, held on 28 November in elections to choose a new president and some members of Parliament.
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