The first results: singer win voices of Haiti

If the preliminary results, musician Michel Martelly inherit a job of challenges.NEW: filling streets with jubilant Michel Martelly supportersMartelly received 67.6% of the vote, preliminary results show race of runoff against former first lady Mirlande Manigat took place the last monthMartelly: "I represents the light at the end of the tunnel".

(CNN) - musician Carnival Flamboyant Michel Martelly edged out former Haitian first lady Mirlande Manigat in a crucial runoff vote presidential held last month, according to preliminary results published Monday.

Martelly, 50, took 67.6% of the vote, while Manigat, 70, received 31.5%, according to Pierre Thibault, spokesman for the Provisional Electoral Council of Haiti.

After the announcement, streets around the Electoral Council in Pétionville filled with spirited supporters of Martelly, who chanted "tete Kale", or bald head - one of the nicknames much Martelly.

Preliminary results were originally should be announced last week, but fraud forced the Council to delay the announcement until Monday. The final results are expected to be announced April 16.

Martelly made a name as the singer "Sweet Mickey," who sometimes drank straight rum bottle and ripped off her clothes during performances.

But it versa his bad boy image write to take care of his family and educate his children.

"My life on stage was very different from what it was at home", Martelly said year last in violence after the November election.

In early December, the Electoral Council announced that Manigat had won, but did not have the majority of the votes necessary for outright victory. First results put him in a runoff with the candidate supported by the Government of Jude Celestin.

Haitians have responded by loading fraud and burning of cars, tires and Celestin campaign headquarters - au-Prince.

Third place, Martelly candidate, said he had won the most votes that Celestin and a review of the results by a team of the Organization of American States supported this claim.

The runoff vote was held on 20 March and proceeded peacefully for the most part in the concern that the return of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a polarizing figure in Haiti, would disrupt the vote. Aristide arrived in Haiti, two days before the runoff, but has kept a low profile until now and did not endorse a candidate.

If the preliminary results, Martelly will inherit a job for challenges such as the struggles of poor countries to rebuild after the devastating earthquake of last year and a cholera epidemic.

In December, Martelly said that Haiti will go nowhere unless people have a President, they can rely, a President who is honest.

"I was on the ground with them for 22 years," he said of his musical career. "Know me people." I represents the light at the end of the tunnel. "Journalists Allyn Gaestel and Ross Velton and Moni Basu of CNN has contributed to this report.

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