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In late 1996, Aristide broke from the OPL over what he called its "distance from the people" [48] and created a new political party, the Fanmi Lavalas. The OPL, holding the majority in the Sénat and the Chambre des Députés , renamed itself the Organisation du Peuple en Lutte , maintaining the OPL acronym.
Lavalas emerged as a powerful social movement in the late 1980s, [2] and it backed Jean Bertrand Aristide's election campaign in 1990. The establishment of the Lavalas movement as a formal political party, renamed Fanmi Lavalas, took place in 1996 as a split by Aristide from the Struggling People's Party (OPL) over the question of his resumption of the three years he lost in exile following ...
Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born 1953) — 12 October 1994 7 February 1996 1 year, 118 days Struggling People's Organization: President [q] 45 René Préval (1943–2017) 1995: 7 February 1996 7 February 2001 5 years Fanmi Lavalas: President (44) Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born 1953) 2000: 7 February 2001 29 February 2004 : 3 years, 22 days Fanmi ...
Take a look at CNN’s Fast Facts on the life of the first democratically elected president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Jean Marie Chérestal (born 1947) 2000: 2 March 2001 15 March 2002 1 year, 13 days Fanmi Lavalas: Jean-Bertrand Aristide (2001–2004) 11 Yvon Neptune (born 1946) — 15 March 2002 12 March 2004 : 1 year, 363 days Fanmi Lavalas: 12 Gérard Latortue (1934–2023) — 12 March 2004 9 June 2006 2 years, 89 days Independent: Boniface Alexandre ...
General elections were held in Haiti between 16 December 1990 and 20 January 1991. The presidential election, held on 16 December, resulted in a victory for Jean-Bertrand Aristide of the National Front for Change and Democracy (FCND).
His presidency, however, was also marked by fierce political clashes with a parliament dominated by opposition party members (OPL) and an increasingly vocal Fanmi Lavalas, which opposed the structural adjustment and privatization program of Préval's government.
Aristide was returned to power on 15 October 1994 and remained in power until 1996, following a democratic election and a peaceful transferral of power. He then returned to the presidency in 2001, but was ousted again in a 2004 coup d'état. [4] Prior to Aristide's reinstatement Cedras and Biamby left the country and settled in Panama.