Petit-Trou de Nippes

Here is a picture of Jean Marie Liphete who was shot dead in Petion-Ville.

On Friday, May 27, 2016, Jean Marie Liphete, a former candidate for Deputy from Petit-Trou-de-Nippes under the banner PONT (Pou Nou Tout) was shot dead near l'enterprise AIDA. Jean Marie Liphete (born May 16, 1971) was an employee of the house AIDA, a Faculty of Law and Economics. In the last election, he obtained 43.21% of the votes, but he lost to Claude Luc Guillaume from Renmin Ayiti who received 56.21% votes. He never accepted this defeat, always proclaimed that he was a victim of unfair mechanism.

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Here is a picture of Jocelerme Privert, Senator of the Nippes Department.

Jocelerme Privert (born February 1, 1954), a native of Petit-Trou de Nippes, is one of the ten Senators in office since the Senate became defunct in January 2015. He is one of the most experienced persons in the Haitian political landscape who had assumed several esteemed portfolios like, the former Director General of Taxation, Minister of Interior and Territorial Communities, an interior minister under Aristide, State Secretary for Finance and an advisor of President Rene Preval. On January 14, 2016, he has been elected as the President of the Senate by defeating Youri Latortue from Ayiti An Aksyon (AAA). There are currently 24 sitting members of Haiti's 30-seat upper house. Privert (INITE) obtained 15 votes, there were seven abstentions and two Senators (Sen. Youri Latortue, an adviser to Martelly, who withdrew himself from the President of the Senate contest and another Senator) left the chambers before the vote. Privert has mentioned his prioritized areas of work as President. They are: a permanent Electoral Council, picking the next head of the PNH, a Constitutional Court, and board of the Central Bank.

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The just over 100,000 strong population of Acul du Nord, in the North of Haiti, is made up mainly of those of the Christian faith, with most of that number being Catholic. For such a devout number, the 2010 election was undoubtedly a hard time as the town was marred by the violent reactions of some during the polling. Opposing factions found themselves in physical altercations over their candidates and shots had to be fired into the air to quell the dispute. Men, armed with guns, arrested progress at most polling stations, causing a cancellation in the dealings until UN peace keepers intervened.

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