Port-au-Prince (AFP) – Haiti’s former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide has spoken in public for the first time since returning from exile in 2011, calling on Haitians to elect his party’s candidate as president.

Speaking from the back of a pickup truck outside his home late Wednesday, Aristide galvanized a crowd of about 2,000 followers who waited for hours to hear him speak.

“We must mobilize ourselves to vote democratically for doctor Maryse Narcisse’s arrival at the national palace,” he said referring to the candidate of his Fanmi Lavalas party.

The first round of the presidential elections are scheduled for October 25.

Narcisse, a physician and longtime Lavalas activist, is one of 54 candidates running to succeed Michel Martelly as Haiti’s president.

Reprising some of his best-known slogans, which followers repeated in chorus, Aristide, a firebrand former Catholic priest, called for unity among Haitians…….more…….

Nouvelles d’Haiti, Haiti actualités Vendredi ,11 SEPTEMBRE 2015

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