Leslie Manigat

Leslie François Manigat ( born August 13, 1930 in Port-au -Prince ) is a Haitian historian, educator, politician and was the President of Haiti.

Life

Study and career

Manigat came from a family of educators and politicians from the north of Haiti. His grandfather François Manigat was general and late 19th century presidential candidate. As youngest of four children of a mathematics teacher at a secondary school and a primary school teacher he completed his studies in philosophy at the Sorbonne. After completing his studies he joined in 1953 as an employee in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1958 he was at the request of the new president François Duvalier founder and first director of the School of International Studies of the Université d' État d' Haïti. However, it accused Duvalier in 1960 the preparation of a student protest, so he was detained temporarily, and shortly thereafter went into exile.

Later he worked as a professor of political science and lectured on history and education at the prestigious University of Paris VIII, Vincennes.

Besides his work as a university teacher, he was also the author of essays on education in the Haitian dailies Le Nouvel list, the oldest newspaper of Haiti, La Phalange and Le Matin. His other publications include:

• Une date littéraire, un événement Pédagogique. Essay, Port -au -Prince, 1962 ( A literary date, an educational event)
• L' Amerique latine au XXe siècle. University of Paris I, 1973 ( Latin America in the 20th century)
• The Caribbean Yearbook of International Relations. 1976 edition

2004 was awarded to him at the International Book Exhibition of the Great Miami Literature Prize of Haiti. He stood up to the Mitnominierten Edwidge Danticat, René Depestre, Jean -Claude Fignolé, Odette Roy - Fombrun, Frankétienne, Gary sound, Dany Laferrière and Josaphat -Robert Large.

President from February to June 1988 presidential nomination in 2006

Manigat in 1979 was the founder of a political party in exile in Venezuela. His campaign manager Robert Benodin organized an armed force with which he was planning an invasion of Haiti in the early 1980s.

From the military-controlled elections of 17 January 1988, he went, according to the Provisional Electoral Council ( Conseil Electoral Provisoire ) emerged as the winner and was awarded with 50.29 per cent more votes than the other ten candidates together. The election was seen by only a few historians and observers as democratic.

On 7 February 1988, his inauguration, when he took over the presidency of Haiti by Lieutenant General Henri Namphy. After only four and a half -months in office, he was then overthrown by General Namphy again on June 20, 1988, after he wanted to settle this by the Office of the Commander in Chief of the armed forces.

In the presidential elections of February 2006, he ran for President of the opposition party Rassemblement of the most progressive Democrats Nationaux ( RNDP ) again as president, but lost the election winner René Préval, who received 51.15 percent. Manigat took second place out of 35 presidential candidates with 12.40 percent of the vote.

Leslie Manigat is married to his second wife Mirlande Manigat. From the relationship a daughter emerged. In the presidential elections of 2010/11 his wife for the RNDP approached.