Haitian president-elect Michel Martelly greets supporters in Port-au-Prince after the preliminary election results were announced. Martelly took 68 percent of the vote against former first lady Mirlande Manigat.
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A Haitian man displays a poster of Martelly on April 4, 2011. A singer of popular Haitian "compas" dance music, Martelly is known for his bawdy lyrics and "bad boy" on-stage antics. He ran on an anti-establishment platform, pledging to shake up Haiti's political system.
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Martelly supporters celebrate in the streets after his victory was announced. "Martelly the country is with you. Do what you want with it," supporters sang outside the national election headquarters.
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A woman looks up her name on a list at a polling location in Carrefour Feuilles on March 20, 2011. The March run-off election went off relatively smoothly. The initial round of voting in November was marred by confusion and fraud.
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Protesters in the streets of Petionville on Dec. 8, 2010. Angry protests erupted across Haiti after initial results showed Martelly placing third in the first round of voting, behind former first lady Mirlande Manigat and governing party candidate Jude Celestin. In February, Haitian officials bowed to international pressure and disqualified Celestin from the runoff.
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Wyclef Jean sings at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert on Dec. 11, 2009. Jean announced his intention to run for president of Haiti in August, but election officials said the singer was ineligible to run.
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Wyclef Jean attends a rally in support of Martelly in the Petionville on March 16, 2011. Jean says a musician like Martelly is just what Haiti needs.
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Artists paint a huge mural on a street corner in Little Haiti in Miami to remember victims of the Jan. 11, 2010, earthquake in Haiti. On the right is a portrait of Haitian hip-hop singer Wyclef Jean crying. The death toll in the quake was about 230,000, with more than 1 million left homeless.
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A Haitian child plays with a plastic kite on top of a bus in front of the destroyed Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince on April 6, 2011. It remains unclear exactly what Martelly’s plan of government consists of but his supporters are united on is the need to rebrand the country’s ugly image.
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