Haitian Senate election, 2008

Senate elections for a third of the seats in the Senate of Haiti are scheduled to be held in 2008 (originally in March or April, but this seems to have been postponed for unknown reasons). Per the Constitution of Haiti, voters should renew ten of the thirty seats in the Senate, but as Pierre Emmanuel Limage (representing Fwon Lespwa, the party of President René Préval, for Artibonite Department) died in a car accident and Ultimo Compère (representing Fwon Lespwa for Centre Department; his term would have expired in 2008 regularly) and Rudolph H. Boulos (representing the Fusion of Haitian Social Democrats for Nord-Est Department) resigned, there will be twelve open seats instead. [ [http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B74F40609-EEE0-4FEC-8411-F01D9C5F2282%7D)&language=EN Prensa Latina ] ]

The seats for which elections will be held are divided among parties as follows:
* Fwon Lespwa – 4 (two of them currently vacant)
* Fusion of Haitian Social Democrats – 2 (one of them currently vacant)
* Struggling People's Organization – 2
* L'Artibonite in Action – 1
* Pont – 1
* Fanmi Lavalas – 1
* Christian National Union for the Reconstruction of Haiti – 1

Preparations were finished in late May 2008. [ [http://www.haitipressnetwork.com/presse/index.cfm?pressID=1335 Le nom du premier ministre dev">] ]

ee also

* List of current members of the National Assembly of Haiti

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