Martelly danse pour dessalines biography

By Erin Zavitz

On 25 October , Haitians went to the ballot box for the first round of presidential elections. None of the fifty-four candidates on the ballot received a majority. In Haiti, a run-off election is the next step.

Yet the months since 25 October have been filled with protests, international intrigue, and the collapse of the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP). Discussion in the foreign press of Haiti’s political turmoil has focused on the two run-off candidates, Jovenel Moïse and Jude Celestin, and the former president Michel Martelly, as well as the role of the international community, specifically the United States.

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Absent from many of these conversations is the third-place candidate, Moïse Jean-Charles, who represents the political party Platform Pitit Dessalines. Jean-Charles’s party is named for Haiti’s founder, the former slave Jean-Jacques Dessalines.

Jean-Charles campaigned with the promise of starting an economic revolution, a complement to the political re