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 With great fanfare, on May 19, Dr.
Maryse Narcisse, the coordinator of the Lavalas Family
Political Organization (FL), registered as that party’s
candidate for presidential elections scheduled for
October and December.
With over 150 motorcycles, 10
school buses, and 40 private cars, thousands of FL
partisans clogged the streets of Tabarre in anticipation
of the event. Dr. Narcisse arrived at the Aristide
Foundation for Democracy around 9:30 a.m.. After a rally
there, she drove through the multitude to the home of
former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, about a half
mile away. After about 15 minutes, two vehicles with
tinted windows emerged. The crowd went wild, thinking
that Dr. Aristide was in one of the vehicles. But when
the cars arrived at the West Department’s Electoral
Bureau (BED), it turned out Dr. Narcisse was accompanied
by Mildred Trouillot Aristide, the former president’s
wife.
The FL has been excluded from all Haitian elections for
over a decade, since the U.S.-backed coup d’état against
Aristide in February 2004.
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