[News] Haiti - Lavelas to register jailed priest as candidate for president

[Anti-Imperialist News]

HAITI: Ousted leader's party to register jailed priest as candidate for
president

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - The party of ousted President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide announced Monday it will register a jailed Roman
Catholic priest and prominent political activist as its candidate for
Haiti's president in elections later this year.

Meanwhile, Haiti's electoral commission said Monday that presidential
and legislative elections scheduled for early November now will take
place on Nov. 20 to give voters more time to register. The second round
of voting also was pushed back from December to Jan. 3, the commission
said.

Aristide's Lavalas Family party said it would register the Rev. Gerard
Jean-Juste as its presidential candidate next week, apparently ending a
heated internal feud over whether to participate in elections - the
first since the bloody February 2004 uprising that helped topple
Aristide.

"Even if he is in jail, we will register him," Rene Monplaisir, a
Lavalas leader in the pro-Aristide slum of Cite Soleil, told cheering
supporters in an assembly hall in Port-au-Prince, the capital.

Jean-Juste, who has been held since July without charge, has said he
would run for president only with Aristide's approval.


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