Patterson says Duvalier’s return ‘precipitous’

CARICOM Special Representative for Haiti, former Prime Minister P. J. Patterson says the international community should allow Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) to rule on the disputed first round of Presidential elections in the Caribbean nation.

Patterson also describes Jean Claude “Baby Doc’ Duvalier’s return to his Caribbean homeland as “precipitous” and is of the view that  the reviled dictator “should be confronted by the full force of the law,” according to a  release from the CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen.

While the constitutional end of President Preval’s term in office comes up on February 7, Patterson has advised that