Marc Bazin

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Marc Louis Bazin (born March 6, 1932 in Saint-Marc , † June 16, 2010 in Port-au-Prince ) was a Haitian politician and was a former prime minister and former president of Haiti .

Life

Professional activities and overthrow of the Duvalier dictatorship

After attending school and studying, he was Minister of Finance and Economy during the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1982. As an incorruptible finance minister, however, he drew the wrath of Duvalier and was dismissed. He then worked as an employee of the World Bank and the United Nations (UN) .

After the fall of Duvalier on June 30, 1986, he was considered one of the most promising candidates for his successor, but the appointment of Lieutenant General Henri Namphy as chairman of the National Council of Government led to a continuation of Duvalierism without Duvalier. When he ran in the January 1988 presidential election, the commander of the elite unit "The Leopards", Colonel Jean-Claude Paul, announced that he would personally execute him if Bazin should win the election.

As the preferred candidate of the then US President George HW Bush and the Haiti bourgeoisie , he ran in the free election of 1990 as a candidate for the office of president, after which the country was largely isolated in foreign policy since the military coup of General Prosper Avril . Bazin was seen as the most promising candidate if the presidential election took place before the reorganization of the political left . In the election of December 16, 1990, he received 14 percent of the vote and was thus defeated by Jean-Bertrand Aristide , who received 67.48 percent of the valid votes cast because of his popularity with the people.

Prime Minister and Acting President 1992-1993

After the overthrow of the elected President Aristide and the seizure of power by the military under Lieutenant General Raoul Cédras on September 30, 1991, he was initially appointed chairman of the Mouvement pour l'Instauration de la Democratie en Haiti (MIDH) party by the military junta on June 4, 1992 appointed Prime Minister, which led to considerable protests, as the economic situation in the country in particular continued to deteriorate. On June 19, 1992 he was appointed as the successor of Joseph Nérette as incumbent President of Haiti . However, the US administration under President Bush saw his presidency as illegal because of the clear election results and called for negotiations between the military government and Aristide.

On June 15, 1993, he resigned as President, but remained in office as Prime Minister. On August 30, 1993, Robert Malval was named the new Prime Minister by the exiled President Aristide.

2006 presidential candidacy

Presidential elections in Haiti 2006

Bazin then withdrew from government policy for several years. After Aristides was re-elected in 2001, he became Minister of Planning in his government.

In the presidential elections of February 2006, he again ran as a representative of the Union pour Haiti (UPH) in the field of 35 candidates for the office of President, but received only 0.68 percent of the vote and was only twelfth after the election winner René Préval Space.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fallce el ex primer ministro haitiano Marc Louis Bazin , abc.es of June 16, 2010
  2. ↑ Joseph W. Treaster: Haiti Sets A Date For New Election . In: The New York Times , December 10, 1987
  3. ↑ Roger De Weck: With machetes against democrats . In: Die Zeit , No. 50/1987
  4. ^ Protests against the new head of government . ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haiti Info, June 10, 1992 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.npla.de
  5. ↑ Civil war in Haiti: The Aristide era has come to an end, but the long-suffering island nation does not come to rest . sibilla-egen-schule.de
  6. ↑ USA wants talks between Bazin and Aristide . ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haiti Info, June 30, 1992 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.npla.de
  7. ^ Haiti Elections: Key Candidates . BBC News, February 6, 2006
predecessor Office successor
Joseph Nérette Acting President of Haiti
June 19, 1992 - June 15, 1993 		Jean-Bertrand Aristide
personal data
SURNAME Bazin, Marc
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marc Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Acting President of Haiti
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Marc
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 2010
Place of death Port-au-Prince