Haiti anti-vote protesters clash with police

Hundreds of protesters demanding the annulment of Haiti's elections marched in the capital for the second time in three days on Sunday, clashing with riot police and stoking tensions ahead of results expected on Tuesday.

Haitian police fired tear gas to disperse the more than 1,500 demonstrators when they tried to break through a barrier blocking access to the area in front of the white presidential palace, which was badly wrecked in a January 12 earthquake.

Demonstrators and bystanders scattered as stinging gas clouds wafted through the tent and tarpaulin shelters of a large crowded camp of thousands of homeless earthquake survivors located in front of the palace in Port-au-Prince.

The clash was the latest in a spate of protests and fraud allegations following presidential and legislative elections held a week ago in Haiti, the Western Hemisphere's poorest state, which is struggling to recover from the earthquake.

Provisional results from the November 28 vote are due to be announced on Tuesday. United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti are bracing for possible trouble after the polls took place amid confusion and with a cholera epidemic raging in the country.

The presidential contest featuring 18 candidates is widely expected to go to a deciding run-off, probably on January 16.

U.N. troops and police stayed mostly out of sight during Sunday's march although some protesters at one point chased and stoned a U.N. vehicle, which raced away.

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The demonstration, following a similar protest on Thursday, was led by several members of a group of around a dozen presidential candidates -- excluding the main frontrunners -- who have repudiated the elections, alleging "massive fraud".

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But the U.N. mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and international observers have cautiously endorsed the elections as acceptable and called on both outgoing President Rene Preval's government and its opponents to respect the outcome of the vote.

The protesters on Sunday yelled "Arrest Preval," accusing the president and his protege presidential candidate Jude Celestin of trying to steal the elections.

Jean-Henry Ceant, one of the presidential contenders calling for the annulment of the elections, said the protests would continue "as long as necessary".

"There were not elections. If there wasn't a first round, there can't be a second. We maintain the same logic: cancellation of the electoral masquerade," he told reporters.