Haitians protest presidential election cancellation
Several hundred supporters of former President Michel Martelly's Haitian Tet Kale Party protested in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday after the results of last year's election were nixed.
Monday's decision to cancel the controversial presidential vote's results followed a recommendation by an independent commission that found fraud had marred the first round of voting in October 2015.
Martelly's hand-picked candidate Jovenel Moise had been declared the first-place finisher.
"The traditional political class does not agree that a man like Jovenel Moise was leading the election," protester Sauveur Gue said.
"They want it to be held again, so we're taking to the streets to demand a second round with the two candidates that were in the lead."
The poorest country in the Americas has been mired in a deep political crisis since the runoff election between Moise and opposition flag-bearer Jude Celestin was first postponed in December amid violence and fraud allegations in the first round.
The opposition at the time had condemned the first round as an "electoral coup" in favor of Moise.
The country's Provisional Electoral Council on Monday set the first round of a new election for October 9 and a second round on January 8.
But with interim president Jocelerme Privert's term scheduled to end in days, there appears to be no solution to a looming power vacuum.