 Rene Préval is fit for the job.
By We Love Him
on 11/6/05 7:53 PM
Thousands March in Haiti to Support Preval
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Demonstrators marched out of two Haitian slums and across the capital Thursday in support of former President Rene Preval's bid to regain the presidency in elections scheduled for next month. Preval, who was president from 1995 to 2000 and is a one-time ally of ousted president Jean-Betrand Aristide, is running as an independent without the backing of Aristide's party, Lavalas. Marchers chanted Preval's name and called for the release of political prisoners and the return from exile of Aristide, who was forced out of the country in February 2004 after a violent rebellion. The elections, which have been postponed twice as Haiti struggles to organize the balloting, are tentatively scheduled for mid-December. The country will choose a new president and legislators to replace the interim government imposed following Aristide's ouster
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