The former carnival singer Michel Martelly has won a landslide victory in Haiti’s controversial presidential runoff election. Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council says Martelly won 68 percent of the vote, easily beating former first lady Mirlande Manigat. The election was marred with problems. About three-quarters of Haitians did not cast votes in the election. Candidates from Haiti’s most popular political party, Fanmi Lavalas, were banned from running. Martelly was included on the runoff ballot only after the United States and other nations pressured Haiti to include him.