Micha Gaillard
Michel " Micha " Gaillard (* 1957, † 14 January 2010 in Port -au -Prince ) was a Haitian university teacher and politician.
Biography
Gaillard was born the son of the historian Roger Gaillard, who wrote the standard work on the history of U.S. intervention in Haiti, 1915-1934. He studied biology in France and took over after his return to Haiti a lecturer of Biology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Haiti. At this time he was first politically active during the immediate aftermath after the fall of dictator Jean -Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier in 1986. At that time his father was briefly president of the University of Haiti. At this time he joined the Social Democratic National Convention Democratic Party movement ( Konakom ) at and later became a supporter of the Catholic priest Jean -Bertrand Aristide in his election as the first freely elected president of Haiti in February 1991. After his overthrow in September 1991 by a military coup led by the leadership of General Raoul Cedras he sat down a couple and accept their own risk for Aristide's return.
After re- inauguration of Aristide however, he was soon disappointed by this. After the highly controversial 2000 elections in which Aristide was president for the fourth time, was Gaillard spokesman for the Democratic Convergence (CD), a multi- party opposition front the political center. This was formed to oppose Aristide's increasingly authoritarian despotism. In the elections of 2000 he ran for the office of mayor of Port -au -Prince. During the election campaign, his campaign office of supporters of Aristide was set on fire.
As Aristide's government was more and more dependent on the support of armed bands and some also attacked by its opponents to arms, Gaillard Aristide tried to move to resign in 2004 to avoid bloodshed and the way for new elections under the supervision of a judge of the Constitutional Court Boniface Alexandre to make as interim president freely. To this end, it did not come as the president clung to power until he was after the relocation of the capital by armed rebels in February 2004 forced to flee Haiti. The subsequently used UN Stabilization Mission took nearly two years for the production of a minimum of stability and order and organization acceptable conditions for the holding of elections.
Thus Gaillard played a leading role in the nonviolent opposition against President Aristide in the rebellious months, which ultimately led to the flight of Aristide into exile in February 2004. In the following years he was a staunch defender of democracy, campaigned for an end to the party splintering and personal rivalries, the more difficult public life, in order to achieve a strengthening of the shaky institutions of legislative and judicial branches.
Gaillard had any involvement in the armed rebellion of himself, which was led by former police and army officers and had connections to the regime of General Cedras in the period from 1991 to 1994. On the other hand, neither he appointed nor other leading politicians of the CD in the transitional government formed with the help of the United Nations after Aristide's overthrow.
Consequently, he again went into opposition and was a founder of the Social-Democratic Fusion Party, which was elected president of the second largest party in the coalition government after the election of René Préval in February 2006. Due to different political views Gaillard, however, proposed Préval offer to acquire the Office of the Minister of Justice and Public Safety from however. Nevertheless, he agreed to chair a working group on reform of the legal system. In this role, he was at a meeting at the Ministry of Justice, as this collapsed in the earthquake in Haiti on 12 January 2010. Although he was initially rescued alive, but died two days later from his injuries.