Michel Martelly
Michel Joseph Martelly (born February 12, 1961 in Port-au-Prince , Haiti ) is a Haitian politician , composer and singer . On May 14, 2011, he became the 56th President of Haiti . At the end of his electoral term, he resigned from his position on February 7, 2016, without a successor. Before the presidency, Martelly was already famous as a composer and singer under the name Sweet Micky .
In the 2010/11 elections in Haiti he prevailed in a runoff election against Mirlande Manigat , u. a. supported by Wyclef Jean , who initially wanted to stand for the office. According to the electoral commission, the cousin of former Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive received around 717,000 votes, which corresponds to a quorum of 68% of the electorate.
Martelly's father was an employee of the Royal Dutch Shell oil company . Martelly went to a Roman Catholic school in Carrefour , a suburb of Port-au-Prince. He then attended several junior colleges in the United States, but did not graduate. Martelly meanwhile worked as a construction worker in Miami . Martelly became known in Haiti as a singer of Haitian dance music, the Kompa . He traveled back to Haiti several times. From 1987 his musician career developed. His hallmarks were costumes and wings, as well as the habit of dropping his pants on stage. Sweet Micky got his stage name in the 1980s when he was performing in nightclubs . One evening he was announced by a friend as "a sweet Mickey for a sweet people".
Martelly lives in Pétionville , the suburb of the rich above the Haitian capital, and has a wife and four children.
Political position
Although he did not appear as a politician before 2010, Martelly was not a blank slate in Haitian politics: on the one hand because of his closeness to Lieutenant Colonel Michel François , police chief and leader of the Tonton Macoutes death squads during the military dictatorship from 1991 to 1994, and on the other hand because of his songs at the carnival in 2002 and 2003, in which he sharply criticized the then President Jean-Bertrand Aristide .
Web links
- Literature by and about Michel Martelly in the catalog of the German National Library
- Klaus Ehringfeld: A character like out of a novel. Haiti. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . April 6, 2011, accessed April 6, 2011 (A portrait of Michel Martelly as the newly appointed President of Haiti).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b us.haiti-live.com: Michel Martelly (Sweet Micky) ( Memento from September 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed on April 5, 2011
- ↑ haitielections2010.com: Haïti Elections 2010: Toutes les infos sur les élections haïtiennes de 2010 ( Memento of February 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed on April 5, 2011
- ↑ Haiti's President Martelly resigned without a successor . Der Standard.at, February 8, 2016
- ↑ Haiti plunges into a new political crisis. . Zeit Online, February 8, 2016, accessed on the same day
- ↑ a b fr-online.de: Haiti: A figure like from a novel , accessed on April 6, 2011
- ↑ a b c d e f g h bbc.co.uk: BBC News - Profile: Michel Martelly , accessed April 6, 2011
- ↑ Not a blank slate , in: Blickpunkt Latin America , April 5, 2011, accessed on January 3, 2018.
- ↑ http://www.dominionpaper.ca/weblogs/wadner_pierre/3799 Michel Martelly, Stealth Duvalierist. The Dominion, Canada, December 16, 2010.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| René Préval |
President of Haiti May 14, 2011–7. February 2016 |
Jocelerme Privert |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Martelly, Michel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Martelly, Michel Joseph (full name); Sweet Micky (stage name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | 56. President of Haiti, composer, singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Port-au-Prince , Haiti |