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Summary Michel Martelly, a singer with no political background, won Haiti's presidential elections.
Preliminary results announced by the Provisional Electoral Council gave the 50-year-old entertainer a clear win with nearly 68 percent of the vote, compared with less than 32 percent for his rival, former first lady Mirlande Manigat.Martelly, an iconoclastic entertainer known for his sometimes provocative stage acts, had campaigned on a forceful promise to change the status quo, pledging to break with decades of past corruption and misrule and bring a better life to Haitians struggling to recover from a devastating 2010 earthquake.
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