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Monday, January 23, 2006
Haiti's elite must do more to help the poor, the frontrunner in Haiti's presidential race told the French Press Agency in an interview.
Former president Rene Preval, who leads opinion polls ahead of the February 7 election said that if those who have, begin to invest in the education of the weakest among us, they would be grateful," "Children must be taken off the streets. Weapons must be taken from the hands of children and replaced with pens and books," he said late on Friday. "That is how we will harmonize relations between rich and poor."
Preval called for judicial reform, the expansion of Haiti's 4,000-strong police force and for the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) to remain in place until Haitians can ensure stability
Preval was Haiti's president from 1996-2001 and served as prime minister for former president Jean Bertrand Aristide in 1991.
On top of increasing violence, uncertainty in the poorest nation in the Americas has mounted as the long-awaited election to find a replacement for Aristide has been postponed four times
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