Wyclef Jean's Haitian presidential bid goes out of tune

[Newsjock]

Source: The Globe and Mail

Wyclef Jean’s bid to become president of Haiti, announced with a crowd-surfing celebration above Port-au-Prince supporters, has come back down to earth amid high-profile criticism, unwelcome scrutiny, eligibility questions and now death threats.

The former front man of the popular 90s hip hop band The Fugees reportedly received a phone call telling him to leave the country and says he fled to an undisclosed location in Haiti to await an announcement Friday about whether he will be allowed to seek the country’s highest office in the November 28 election.

... The country’s electoral law stipulates that candidates must have had five consecutive years of residency in Haiti to be eligible, be older than 35, own property on the island and “never have been sentenced to death,” requirements that have thrown a wrench in the political plans of at least nine contenders.

... Lawyers working on his behalf say Mr. Jean is eligible to run for president despite the fact that he has lived in the United States most of his life, and say he never took U.S. citizenship.

Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/haiti/wyclef-jeans-haitian-presidential-bid-goes-out-of-tune/article1677963/

[EFerrari]

1. Hard to believe. This guy supported the coup. nt

[monmouth]

2. When Sean Penn stated he had doubts about Mr. Jean's agenda,

I knew this guy was done. Penn has been in Haiti for ages and I respect his opinions on what is going on there. Wyclef was nowhere to be seen. Go Sean!

[malaise]

3. Wyclef is clueless

He will never be President of Haiti

[Billy Burnett]

4. He'll need to hire Xe or Wackenhut for protection.

If you want to be president of any nation that the US is "helping", then you'll need trigger ready heavily armed corporate American security ...




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