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WORLD, Page 64World NotesHAITISliding Toward The Abyss
The promise of democracy was deferred again in Haiti two
weeks ago as the Electoral Council announced that elections
scheduled for Nov. 4 would be postponed until perhaps December
because of a lack of funds. The news threatened to unravel the
caretaker administration of President Ertha Pascal Trouillot,
whose six-month-old transition government has already been
tarnished by charges of corruption and incompetence. "She
cannot make good on her pledge to hold genuine elections, so
her administration has lost its reason to exist," observed
Gerard Pierre-Charles, a left-wing political analyst. "We are
sliding inexorably toward the temptation of a military coup."
A former Supreme Court judge who was appointed last March
by the Unity Assembly, Trouillot was expected to lead Haiti to
free elections. But some of her erstwhile supporters are having
doubts. Seven political parties in the Assembly have called for
her resignation and threatened to boycott the vote if she is
still President.