Report: Wyclef Jean will not be allowed to run for president of Haiti Read more: http://www.miamihe

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: Miami Herald

Hip-hop star Wyclef Jean's bid to run for president of his native Haiti has been rejected by an electoral council, Reuters reported Thursday night.

No official announcement has been made and as of late Thursday afternoon the singer told The Miami Herald in Haiti he was confident he would be on the final list of candidates scheduled to be announced as early as Friday.

Jean's residency had been viewed as a possible obstacle. Jean, 40, was born in a Port-au-Prince suburb and left the country when he was 9. He grew up in New York and New Jersey.

A nine-member electoral council is to decide whether he qualified, along with a long slate of other candidates. Haiti's presidential election slated for Nov. 28 is arguably the country's most important in two decades.




Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/19/1783907/report-wyclef-jean-will-not-be.html

[Aramchek]

1. he probably would have won

[alp227]

2. Yet Arnold Schwarzenegger was allowed to run for governor in the 2003 California recall

and won.

Look how California is now...every year budget gridlock, especially bad this year (50 days late already), $20+ billion deficit.

[Tempest]

3. Arnold was a California resident

There was nothing to prevent him from running.

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[Dogmudgeon]

5. The USA is not Haiti

The election of Arnold Schwartzenegger was of dubious wisdom, but he had the right to run. He'd also lived here for many years.

Wyclef Jean was not a resident under Haitian law.

--d!

[ProgressiveProfessor]

6. He met all the requirements

An IMO California was headed pretty much to where it is today with or without him as governor

[tabasco]

11. Riiiiiiight.

Because good leadership can never solve problems.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

15. OK, what eligibility requirements did he not meet.?

Its not like I claimed he was doing a good job....

[tabasco]

19. ------->

"An IMO California was headed pretty much to where it is today with or without him as governor"

[ProgressiveProfessor]

20. Indeed it was...

Until something seriously ruptures in CA, it is effectively ungovernable

[JI7]

10. that has nothing to do with this

[bookworm65t]

7. Jean reminds me of Reuben Blades

I know that these are probably different situations and different factors.

Blades had made for himself as an entertainer worldwide (especially in the US)and had mostly lived abroad, but for some reason that escapes me now, decided that it was a good idea to run for the presidency of Panama. He ended up being soundly defeated. Some Panamanians weren't happy about this usurper taking control, IMHO

When I saw that Jean wanted to run for the Haitian presidency, he reminded me of Blades. I was curious to see the outcome.

[Billy Burnett]

12. Wyclef supported the Bush backed coupster thugs, who took over after Aristide was kidnapped.

These convicted murders, that Wyclef supported, were armed in the DR by the US.

Just as it happened (and continues) in Honduras ... there was a killing spree and disappearances of (Aristide's party) Lavalas party members and labor union organizers.

This is the modus operandi of the US Dept of State's program of spreading democracy ...





Imo, Wyclef is scum.

[zonkers]

18. Good. Get a real candidate with legit credentials.

[cory777]

8. Haiti council: Wyclef Jean can't run for president

Source: Associated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti's electoral council on Friday ruled that hip hop-artist Wyclef Jean cannot run for president, ending his outsider's bid to lead the reconstruction of the earthquake-ravaged Caribbean nation.

Council spokesman Richard Dumel said election officials have accepted 19 candidacies and rejected 15 others. The Haitian-born singer's candidacy was turned down because he did not meet the residency requirement of having lived in Haiti for five years before the Nov. 28 election.

Jean, whose parents brought him to the United States as a child, has lived off and on in Haiti in recent years. In 2007 he was named roving ambassador to Haiti by President Rene Preval, an appointment he had argued qualified him to run for president of the country.

The 40-year-old former Fugees frontman was ensconced in a hotel not far from where the electoral council was deliberating. About an hour before the candidate list was announced, Jean and his entourage left the hotel without speaking to the press.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cb_haiti_elections_jean

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[Turborama]

9. Oops. n/t

[Phil The Cat]

13. Bummer

He cannot be elected on Friday!
And he won't be assasinated on Saturday!
And he won't be buried on Sunday!

But he'll be back to work on Monday!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvAUFnzN4tg

[Billy Burnett]

14. Good one! LOL

:thumbsup:

[Jkid]

16. Did the reports say why he can't run for president?

From what I read, I'm getting nothing.

[truthisfreedom]

21. Jean's residency had been viewed as a possible obstacle. Jean, 40, was born in a Port-au-Prince

suburb and left the country when he was 9. He grew up in New York and New Jersey.

[Xithras]

22. He hasn't lived in Haiti for 32 years.

The Haitian constitution apparently requires that candidates have lived in the country for at least the last 5 years. He didn't meet the requirements.

[Major Hogwash]

17. He would have made a great President! Surely he would show more compassion than the last pres

for the poor in Haiti.

[Billy Burnett]

23. He supported the murderous coupster thugs who took out elected Aristide.

He would have made a great thug President.

[Major Hogwash]

24. Wyclef Has done more to help the poor people of Haiti than you have.

As for you, you're nothing but an anonymous mouse on the internet.

[Billy Burnett]

25. I'll consider that before I announce my own presidential run in Haiti.

:dunce: