PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CMC):
THE POLITICAL party of President-elect Rene Preval failed to win a majority in last week's legislative run-off for the 129 seats in Parliament, but political observers say he could still receive the backing of at least 88 legislators.
Preval's party, "Lespwa", won 11 of the 27 Senate seats already decided and 20 of the 85 House seats tallied, according to the results of the April 21 legislative runoff released by the Electoral Council on Wednesday.
Preval was elected in the first round of the presidential election held on February7. He will be sworn into office on May 14.
Seventeen legislative positions, including three Senate seats, are still up for grabs during elections to come in several jurisdictions where the vote had been cancelled because of violence or other technical problems.
