Marc Bazin
Marc Louis Bazin ( March 6, 1932 in Saint -Marc, † June 16, 2010 in Port -au -Prince ) was a Haitian politician and was former Prime Minister and former President of Haiti.
Biography
Professional Activities and fall of the Duvalier dictatorship
After attending school and graduating in 1982, he was Minister of Finance and Economy under the dictatorship of Jean -Claude Duvalier. However, as a incorruptible Minister of Finance was the wrath Duvalier up and was discharged. Then he was an employee of the World Bank and the United Nations ( UN) operates.
After the fall of Duvalier on 30 June 1986 he was considered one of the most promising candidates for the succession, however, resulted in the appointment of Lieutenant General Henri Namphy as Chairman of the National Executive Council to a continuation of the Duvalierismus without Duvalier. When he was a candidate in the presidential elections of January 1988, said the commander of the elite unit of " The Leopard ", Colonel Jean -Claude Paul, that he wants to execute him by hand, if Bazin should win the elections.
As a candidate of the then U.S. President George HW Bush and the bourgeoisie of Haiti, he joined the free choice of 1990 as a candidate for the office of President, after the country 's foreign policy was largely isolated since the military coup led by General Prosper Avril. Bazin was considered the leading candidate if the presidential election would take place before the reorganization of the political Left. In the election of 16 December 1990, he received 14 percent of the vote and defeated so that Jean- Bertrand Aristide, who received 67.48 percent of the valid votes because of its popularity with the people.
Prime Minister and President from 1992 to 1993
After the overthrow of elected President Aristide and the seizure of power by the military under Lieutenant-General Raoul Cedras on September 30, 1991, he was chairman of the party Mouvement pour l' instauration de la Démocratie en Haiti ( MIDH ) by the military junta on 4 June 1992, first appointed Prime Minister, which led to significant protests since particularly worsened the economic situation of the country. On 19 June 1992 he was also appointed as the successor of Joseph Nérette acting President of Haiti. The U.S. government under President Bush saw his presidency, however, because of the unique election results as illegitimate and invited to negotiations between the military government and Aristide.
On 15 June 1993, he resigned as president, but still remained as Prime Minister in office. On August 30, 1993, was appointed as the new Prime Minister Robert Malval of exiled President Aristide.
Presidential nomination in 2006
Then Bazin moved for several years from the Government Policy. After the re-election of Aristide in 2001, he was planning minister in his government.
In the presidential elections of February 2006, he appeared again as a representative of the Union pour Haiti ( UPH ) in the 35 candidates for the office of President box, but received only 0.68 percent of the vote and finished in accordance with the election winner René Préval only the twelfth Place.