Haiti’s electoral council has banned the influential party of exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from next year’s legislative elections. The Fanmi Lavalas party, which remains a major party with support from the capital’s urban poor, is among 17 groups barred from February’s elections because they submitted improper documents. The list includes the Lespwa movement that formed around President Rene Preval when he ran for president in 2004.
Aristide, who has been living in exile in South Africa after he was overthrown during a 2004 rebellion, called the decision to eliminate Lavalas “an electoral coup d’etat.” He spoke in an interview late Wednesday with Radio Solidarité.
Lespwa officials did not answer phone calls seeking comment on Thursday.
The Lavalas party boycotted Senate run-off elections in June after the council disqualified its candidates on a technicality, and was barred from 2006 presidential elections. Lavalas executive council head Maryse Narcisse told The Associated Press on Thursday she did not understand why the party was rejected. “We did everything that we were supposed to do,” she said. “We were excluded without any reasons, and now we are waiting for an answer.”
The council approved 53 parties to run in the elections. The vote is now scheduled for Feb. 28, but might be postponed to coincide with presidential elections later in the year. Rejected parties can appeal.
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By: Global Voices Online » Haiti: Lavalas Banned From Elections on November 27, 2009
at 6:43 pm
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ap fe nou pi fo`pi djanm nap gen plis popilarite
a trave`mond la, kom Titid te di madi yon jou nap
gin pou’n fe`16 desanm 90 anko`.
Gnou sel mouin feb, avek Titid mouin djanm, ansa
nm ansanm Ayiti gin pou’l chanje lavalaseman!
Lavalas 2…
By: JeanJoseph,R on November 28, 2009
at 3:07 pm
Alo:
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chase gnou lot jou jibye’a?
Chak jou ki pran nesans diferan de jou hye’a…
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vle nou eksprime nou avek biltin vote nou,sebon…
Lavalas 2 !
By: JeanJoseph,R on November 28, 2009
at 3:25 pm
[...] Haitian election council decertified the Fanmi Lavalas Party of exiled former President Aristide, banning the party from the 2010 elections. Now the coup government wants Zelaya to sign a pledge not to campaign from outside the country [...]
By: **UPDATED**Aristede to Zelaya: “Going My Way?” Merry Christmas, while democracy bites the dust – again! « The Department of Homegirl Security on December 11, 2009
at 12:09 am
[...] Supporters of former Haitian President and liberation theologian Jean-Bertrand Aristide marched through Port-au-Prince on Wednesday this week calling for his return from exile and protesting his [Fanmi Lavalas] party’s exclusion from upcoming elections. Thousand protesters joined in the march, which marked Aristide’s rise to power as Haiti’s first democratically elected president in December 1990. The demonstrators accused the government of President René Préval, a one-time Aristide ally, of planning a fraudulent legislative ballot and said they would boycott the vote in the impoverished Caribbean nation [also see Haiti bans Fanmi Lavalas party from 2010 election]. [...]
By: Thousands of Supporters March for Aristide « Repeating Islands on December 17, 2009
at 2:17 pm
NATIONALISM and ISOLATIONISM. The U.S. Earthquake relieft funs have never arrived. If the U.S. won’t help us rebuild, then the U.S. and UN needs to keep its nose out of our business, the people are becoming unpatient and the freedom fights will organize and arm in defense of AYITI until it is free of American influence. L’UNION FAIT LA FORCE!!!
By: HaitianPride on November 7, 2010
at 2:30 am