WORLDMAGNUM: HAITI SECOND ROUND of PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS (MINUSTAH)

WORLDMAGNUM:18 February 2011 -- UN MINUSTAH: Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Former first lady Mirlande Manigat officially launched her run-off campaign for the Haitian presidency yesterday (17 Feb) with a little more than a month to go before the 20 March elections.
Manigat, 70 years old, talked about her priorities in a press conference in Port-au- Prince. She will be focusing on cholera as well as the large number of people still displaced in the country since last year's earthquake.
As of early February, there have been more than 200,000 cases of cholera infection and over 4,500 deaths due to the disease.




Manigat said that she will prioritize education and make sure that Haitians have the opportunity for primary as well as higher education. She added that before the earthquake, there were about 800,000 people who never went to school and many others "do not finish the high school."
The other presidential candidate Michel Martelly also launched his campaign yesterday in Cap Haitien, Haiti's second largest city.
Haiti's next president will succeed President Rene Preval and preside over a country still devastated by the 12 January 2010 earthquake which killed over 200,000 people and left much of Port-au-Prince in ruins.

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