Friday August 20, 2010 – http://www.haitiquotidien.com/news.php/225 Dorsinvil’s staunch support to Wyclef has triggered rumors of possible payoffs. Dorsinvil told The Miami Herald that “it is not true” and the rumors are from people trying to destabilize the process.
ASSER, Haiti — A somber Wyclef Jean held firm Friday that there was nothing in his conversation with Haitian President Rene Preval to indicate that he would not be among the final list of candidates allowed to compete in the Nov. 28 presidential ballot.
The conversation “was not about stepping down,” Jean told The Miami Herald during a morning visit to his rural hideaway.
Jean met with Preval Thursday afternoon, and said afterward, “We feel we are going to be OK.”
The president, he said, was concerned about alleged death threats against him and asked if he needed more security. Preval said he wanted clean elections, and at one point put Jean on the phone with his presidential pick, Jude Celestin, the former head of the government’s road-building outfit.
Jean said he asked Celestin to make good on a new road for his rural hometown and challenged the avid drag racer to a duel.
Asked why he thought Preval arranged the call, Jean said, he believed it was the president’s way of showing that he didn’t want any “ugliness” in the upcoming elections.
Preval has met with or intends to meet with some of the other nearly three dozen presidential hopefuls. He met with former Prime Minister Jacques-Edouard Alexis, who was passed over for Celestin as his INITE platform pick, and also planned to meet with others.
On Thursday night, supporters of Jean protested in front of the Provisional Electoral Council headquarters.
Jean said at least three of the eight sitting members of the country’s electoral council are holding fast and are refusing to declare him ineligible.
But sources familiar with the debates of the council have told The Miami Herald that only the president of the council, Gaillot Dorsinvil, has been pushing Jean’s candidacy, despite 20 pages of legal documents submitted as proof that he is not eligible to run.
Dorsinvil’s staunch support has triggered rumors of possible payoffs. Dorsinvil told The Miami Herald that “it is not true” and the rumors are from people trying to destabilize the process.
Jean denied that he or anyone associated with him have made any payments.
He also said he had heard three members of the electoral council are trying to get exile because “they are being pressured from all sides.”
Earlier this week, Haitian police tightened Haiti’s porous borders with the Dominican Republic
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COMMENT: HAITIAN-TRUTH.ORG
As we said before, a large amount of money was slipped into the CEP by a candidate.
Dorsinvil took the payoff and was supposed to share with others.
Even with the candidates now recognized, we should have a new CEP and get on with some sort of honest electoral process.
It cannot happen with the existing CEP since its members are all controlled by Rene Preval.
Nothing has changed, the tune is constant.
Rene Preval plans to derail the electoral process now, or at some stage down the line.
At the present rate we will not have a valid election in November of 2010
PUT A POLYGRAPH ON DORSINVIL
HE LIES
As everyone could see, the international community through Minustah will be accounted for the crisis heading for the coming months in Haiti.The election process is a plan to take over Haiti indefinitely.even through a formal occupation on Haiti by the Dominican Republic under the leadership of the American Dominican president Leonel Fernandez Meyia, who was born in New York, USA.
So,where is the problem. I am telling you, Lavalas gangs, from Aristide to Preval had delivered the Marchandise to Bill Clinton as the deal to restored them to power in October 1994.Now, I would say to the Haitian People, that there is no more no less that the country of Haiti is no longer their own.It has been sold.
This is the reason why, Lavalas has disbanded our Army and created several gangs to create disorder all over to facilitate the accomplishment of this durty transaction.
Our children will be no longer beneficiaries of what we have sa legitimate Heritage.Preval MUST PAY SOONER OR LATER FOR THAT, AND ARISTIDE AS WELL.