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Article Excerpt
The party of ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has named a candidate for this fall's presidential elections. He is Gerard Jean-Juste, a Catholic priest, as was Aristide. The selection appears to have resolved a growing split within Fanmi Lavalas between moderates who wanted the party represented and strong Aristide loyalists who still consider Aristide the leader of the nation. Jean-Juste's nomination also creates a nightmare scenario for the US, which, when it spirited Aristide away to exile in February, did not contemplate the election of another president cut from the same mold (see NotiCen, 2005-04-28).
The participation of Lavalas also resolves the question of the legitimacy of the elections for the interim government, since Lavalas is the country's largest party by far. The interim government must now look to its own legitimacy, however. It has been holding candidate Jean-Juste in jail since July on suspicion of involvement in the kidnapping and murder of a prominent Haitian journalist. Jean-Juste has denied involvement, was in Miami at the time of the murder, and has not been formally charged.
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