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November 3, 2005 11:15 AM - translated by Isabelle Desbians. Over 20.000 Fanmi Lavalas supporters demonstrated peacefully this Thursday in the streets of Port-au-Prince to support candidate Ren� Garcia Pr�val for the presidency of Haiti at the elections announced for the end of the year. The demonstrators who came from several populist neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince's metropolitan area such as Cit� Soleil, Bel-Air, Carrefour-Feuilles, Martissant, Carrefour, wore t-shirts with pictures of the platofrm of hope and showed signs and posters with the picture of former President Pr�val. In a carnival atmosphere, demonstrators walked several streets of the capital before joining on Delmas Road to go from there to the offices of the Provisional Electoral Council. Pictures of them were shown on television. There, they delivered a message calling to the holding of free, fair and democratic elections to help national reconciliation and unity between all Haitians from all social classes. Declaring that Fanmi Lavalas is not in the electoral race, the demonstrators affirmed their determination to vote for Ren� Pr�val, as he is the only one, they said, who can give hope by creating jobs, promoting national production and continuing infrastructure works. One of the spokespersons of Fanmi lavalas grassroots, Ren� Monplaisir, invited the national and international community to note the dense crowd demonstrating in the streets to support Mr. Pr�val. "There is not one candidate who can win over the candidate of Hope during the next elections. "If the next elections are free, fair and democratic, Ren� Pr�val will be elected president of Haiti early in the morning of the vote. All along their route, the demonstrators denounced the misery in which they are living, the violation of their rights as citizens of the country. Many of them declared their declarations were recorded. They also demanded the release of political prisoners and the return from exile of all political exiles. Several people organizing the demonstration congratulated themselves for the fact that the demonstration took place peacefully under the eyes of MINUSTAH soldiers, members of the national police and journalists. However, a young demonstrator, Nadine Marcel, was injured at her leg. We don't know where the projectile came from. In other news, "Provisional Prime Minister G�rard Latortue was heckled this Friday in Gona�ves where he had gone on the occasion of the city's Saint Patron's Day, Saint-Charles Borrom�e. Latortue was even kept from making his speech for the occasion by the boos of demonstrators who accused him of not respecting the several promises made to the population of Gona�ves, where he is from. [BM: Apparently before moving to Florida.] They reproach the interim prime minister notably for not respecting is promise to build about one hundred houses after the tropical storm Jeanne which had killed over 2000 people in the City of Independence in September 2004." You can get these translations direct to your e-mail box my e-mailing Mike Levy at mlhaiti at cornernet . com-- and then you can post to the Narcosphere any articles or excerpts you think are important by getting a co-publisher's account with a donation to the Fund for Authentic Journalism. Over 20,000 Fanmi Lavalas, Candidateless, March for Preval | 0 comments (0 topical, 0 hidden)
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