Polling stations opened in Haiti early Sunday, with some 5.8 million people eligible to vote for a new president amid serious security concerns.
Low turnout is expected due to fear of violence in the impoverished Caribbean nation, which is notorious for chronic political instability.
Haiti is holding a first-round presidential vote, second-round legislative polling, and is also electing local officials, with polling stations closing at 4:00 pm (2000 GMT).
A total of 54 candidates are vying to replace President Michel Martelly, a pop singer and political novice who assumed office in 2011, the year after a catastrophic earthquake killed more than 200,000 and left upwards of 1.5 million living on the streets.
The elections are being held amid a climate of uncertainty, with many afraid of a repeat of the violence that plagued the first-round legislative elections in August, when two people were killed.
Polling stations opened in Haiti early Sunday, with some 5.8 million people eligible to vote for a new president amid serious security concerns.
Low turnout is expected due to fear of violence in the impoverished Caribbean nation, which is notorious for chronic political instability.
Haiti is holding a first-round presidential vote, second-round legislative polling, and is also electing local officials, with polling stations closing at 4:00 pm (2000 GMT).
A total of 54 candidates are vying to replace President Michel Martelly, a pop singer and political novice who assumed office in 2011, the year after a catastrophic earthquake killed more than 200,000 and left upwards of 1.5 million living on the streets.
The elections are being held amid a climate of uncertainty, with many afraid of a repeat of the violence that plagued the first-round legislative elections in August, when two people were killed.
