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Candidate wanted on US drug charges wins Haiti Senate seat
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A Senate candidate and former rebellion leader wanted on decade-old U.S. drug-trafficking charges has been elected to Haiti’s Parliament.
Provisional Electoral Council spokeswoman Nicole Simeon said Monday that preliminary results show Guy Philippe won a Senate runoff for the Grande Anse region.
Final results won’t be certified for weeks. It wasn’t immediately clear if his rivals will contest.
Philippe belongs to the Consortium faction allied with President-elect Jovenel Moise’s Tet Kale party.
He is wanted on drug-trafficking charges including conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States. The indictment charging him is sealed and federal prosecutors decline to discuss it.
Philippe denies any wrongdoing.
He is reviled by some Haitians and celebrated by others as a leader of the 2004 rebellion that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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