Presidential elections were held in Haiti on 26 November 2000. The opposition parties, organised into the recently created

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, boycotted the election after disputing the results of the parliamentary elections. The result was a landslide victory for Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who received 91.7% of the vote with a turnout of around 50%. Concerns were raised when the

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conducted a fact-finding mission on the election and found that 10 senatorial seats in the simultaneous parliamentary elections should have gone to a second-round runoff because the candidates did not win an absolute majority as required by the

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. This resulted in the

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and the

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banning economic assistance to the country until 2005, which were supported by Haitian opposition members.

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