Fanmi Lavalas

Fanmi Lavalas (FL, creole: Fanmi: Family, Laval: waterfall or avalanches (in terms of the biblical Flood) ) is a left-wing political party in Haiti. Its leader is former Haitian President Jean -Bertrand Aristide.

The party is a significant force in Haitian politics since its foundation in 1991. Fanmi Lavalas claims that their governments a policy of "growth with equity ", supported based on Caribbean and Western European social democratic principles. Fanmi Lavalas governments have invested in education and health, and were opposed to the austerity measures imposed by the International Monetary Fund.

Formation and cleavage

Lavalas was a political movement in Haiti and the first party of the movement was the organization du peuple en lutte (OPL, franz: about " organization by fighting people ")., Founded in 1991 in the course of the nineties, OPL and Lavalas lived more and more apart, partly because of the economic- liberal tendencies of the OPL. Therefore, in 1996 the FL divided among Aristide's leadership from as a party for the poor masses.

Two main reasons for the split are known: ( 1) to stay the Lavalasbewegung loyal, against the neoliberal policies of the influenced from abroad OPL; ( 2) to take over the leadership of the movement by rival politicians to the detriment, Aristides and other more left-wing politicians to prevent. The Haitian military had brought Aristide's first government in 1991 with support from the United States to case, 2004, the incumbent President Aristide was taken out of the country during a coup under dubious circumstances.

In the free elections in which the party of Lavalsbewegung was approved in 1990 and 1995 (when OPL ) and 2000 ( as Fanmi Laval ) they won clear majorities. After the second fall of Aristide in 2004, the party was not admitted to the elections of 2006 and 2010/11.