Lavalas to Field Two Candidates for President
From Times Wire Reports
Ousted Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s political party registered two candidates for the nation’s presidential election this year.
Aristide’s Lavalas party, which many political analysts had expected would easily win if it kept a united front, split after authorities rejected the registration of popular priest Gerard Jean-Juste because he was in jail. Its two candidates are a former senator, Gerald Gilles, and a former World Bank official, Marc Louis Bazin.
In all, more than 50 candidates registered.
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