PORT-AU-PRINCE —
Banana exporter Jovenel Moise won Haiti's presidential election in the first round, provisional results released by the election council on Monday showed, after a Nov. 20 election intended to end a year of political uncertainty.
Moise won 55.67 percent of the vote, the council said, a majority that means the impoverished Caribbean nation will avoid a runoff election and months more in a political void, if the losing candidates do not contest the result.