HAITI:
LIST OF QUALIFIED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES November
21, 2005 Prepared by Max Blanchet Max
Blanchet is a chemical engineer who has worked for nearly 30 years as a design
engineer at Shell, Chevron and Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Since his retirement
Mr. Blanchet has worked as a consulting engineer. In recent years Mr. Blanchet
has served on the boards of various organizations, including Global Exchange in
San Francisco, CA; the DataCenter in Oakland, CA; the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
in Berkeley, CA; FONKOZE USA in NYC, the Lambi Fund of Haiti in Washington, DC;
and the National Coalition for Haitian Rights in NYC. Mr. Blanchet was recently
elected to the KPFA (Berkeley, CA) Local Station Board. He has received B.S. and
M.S. degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1964 and 1965 respectively
and an M.B.A. in finance from UC Berkeley in 1979. |
NAME
| PARTY | NOTES | # |
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| BAKER, Charles Henry | Independent
Key Allies: Evans Lescouflair and Chavanne Jean-Baptiste of KOMBA, Desrouleaux
of RESPE and PAIN | Rich industrialist,
formerly affiliated with but not currently endorsed by the Groupe des 184 |
1 |
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BAZIN, Marc Louis | Union
pour Haïti Key backers : Mouvement pour l’Instauration de la Démocratie
en Haïti (MIDH) and the Feuillé/Hériveaux faction of Fanmi Lavalas | Former
finance minister under JC Duvalier, PM under military regime, former planning
minister under JB Aristide | 2 |
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| BELIZAIRE, Déjean | Mouvement
National Patriotique du 28 Novembre (MNP-28) | Former
senator | 3 |
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| BORGELLA, Joel | Organisation
pour l’Avancement d’Haïti et des Haïtiens (OLAHH) | | 4 |
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BUTEAU, Jean Hénold | Mouvement
pour la Reconstruction Nationale (MRN) | |
5 |
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| CHERESTAL, Jean Marie | Pou
Nou Tout (PONT); probably has the backing of certain sectors of Fanmi
Lavalas | Former high official under JC
Duvalier, former PM under JB Aristide | 6
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| CLAUDE, Bonivert | Parti
Social Rénové (PSR) | Former head of Haiti’s
Central Bank | 7 |
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| DELPE, Dr. Turneb | Parti
National Démocratique Progressiste d’Haïti (PNDPH) | Former
senator | 8 |
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| DENIS, Paul | Organisation
du Peuple en Lutte (OPL), formerly Organisation Politique Lavalas | Former
Lavalas senator and key player in OPL |
9 |
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| De RONCERAY, Hubert | Grand
Front Centre Droit (GFCD) | Former social
affairs minister under JC Duvalier |
10 |
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| DESTIN, Marc-Antoine | Mouvement
pour l’Avancement, le Développement et l’Innovation de la Démocratie en Haïti
(MADIDH) | Former union leader |
11 |
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| DUPLAN, Joseph Rigaud | Plateforme
Justice et Paix pour le Développement National (PJPDN) | Well-known
attorney and former head of the bar association in P-au-P, former minister of
finance | 12 |
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| FLEURINORD, Luc | Independent
| Former senator | 13
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| FRANCISQUE, Edouard | Union
des Nationalistes Progressistes Haïtiens (UNITE) | Former
minister of the economy under JC Duvalier |
14 |
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| GEORGES, Reynold | Alliance
pour la Libération et l’Avancement d’Haïti (ALLAH) | Lawyer,
perennial neo-duvalierist presidential candidate | 15 |
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| GILLES, Serge | Fusion
des Sociaux-démocrates (FUSION) Key Allies: Victor Benoît, Micha Gaillard
and PDCH (Faction Marie-Denise Claude); probably has the support of the Socialist
International | Well-known socialist leader,
former senator | 16 |
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| GOURGUE, Gérard | Mouvement
de l’Unité Démocratique (MUP) ; key allies: General Avril, Mrs. Claire Lydie
Parent and Jean-Auguste Mésyeux | Well-known
human rights lawyer, candidate for president in 1987, former minister of justice | 17 |
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| JEUNE, Jean Chavannes | Union
Nationale pour la Reconstruction d’Haïti (UNCHR) | Protestant
minister | 18 |
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| JULIEN, René | Action
Démocratique pour Bâtir Haïti (ADEBAH) | Lawyer | 19 |
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| JUSTIMA, Emmanuel | Action
Démocratique | | 20
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| LIBERUS, Raoul | | | 21 |
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| MANIGAT, Leslie François | Rassemblement
des Démocrates Nationaux Progressistes (RDNP) Key ally: Cantave’s KONAKOM du
Renouveau ; probably has the support of Christian democratic parties and
groups in Latin America and Europe | Well-known
political scientist and party leader, served briefly as president under Namphy
in 1988 | 22 |
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| MESADIEU, Luc | Mouvement
Chrétien pour une Nouvelle Haïti (MOCHRENA); probably has the support of evangelical
churches and groups in Haiti and the US | Protestant
minister well-connected to Protestant networks |
23 |
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NICOLAS, Evans | Front
de l’Union pour la Réconciliation Nationale (FURN) | Leader
of URN, a duvalierist party | 24 |
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| PAUL, Evans (Ka Plim) | Alliance
Démocratique key ally : Claude Roumain of Generation 2004; probably
has the support of L. Fernandez’s Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD) | Well-known
political activist, former mayor of P-au-P, leader of KID | 25 |
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| PERPIGNAN, Frantz | Parti
Démocrate Chrétien Haïtien (PDCH – branche Marie France Claude) | | 26 |
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| PHILIPPE, Guy | Front
pour la Libération Nationale (FLN) | Former
army officer and high-ranking officer of Haitian National Police under Préval/Aristide,
led rebellion against Aristide | 27 |
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| PREVAL, René Garcia | Platform
ESPOIR backed by ESKANP, Pati Louvri Baryè (PLB), KONPA, KOREGA and KOZEPEP and
certain grassroots sectors of Fanmi Lavalas such as Mouvman Peyizan Milo under
Moïse Jean-Charles | Former PM and President
under Lavalas, formerly JBAristide’s marasa or twin brother | 28 |
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REBU, Himmler | Grand
Rassemblement pour l’Evolution d’Haïti (GREH) | Former
colonel of the Haitian Army (Head of the Leopards), involved in coup attempt against
General Avril in 1989 | 29 |
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| ROMAIN, Dr. Charles Poisset | Front
Civico-Politique Haïtien (FRONCIPH) | Former
government minister and member of the 87 CEP, university professor | 30 |
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| ROMAIN, Franck François | Camp
Patriotique et l’Alliance Haïtienne (PACAPALAH) | Infamous
officer of the Haitian army, former mayor of P-au-P under JC Duvalier, industrialist |
31 |
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| ROY, Marie Judie C. | Regroupement
Patriotique pour le Renouveau Haïtien (REPAREN) | Political
activist who spent time in jail under Aristide; the only female candidate |
32 |
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| SAINT-LOUIS, Yves Marais | Parti
Vert Haïtien | Haitian green party | 33 |
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| SYLVAIN, Jean Jacques | Parti
des Industriels, Travailleurs, Commerçants, et Agents de Développement d’Haïti
(PITACH) | |
34 |
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| TOUSSAINT, Dany | Mouvement
Démocratique et Réformateur Haïtien, (MODEREH) ; Key ally: Former Fanmi
Lavalas Senator Prince Sonson Pierre | Former
major of the Haitian army, former Fanmi Lavalas senator, broke with Aristide in
2003 | 35 |
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