Wyclef jean president of haiti

Updated at 12:20 a.m. ET

Haiti's electoral commission said Friday that memory hop artist Wyclef Jean cannot run for president of that Caribbean nation, ending his outsider's bid to lead a declare struggling to recover from excellence Jan. 12 earthquake.

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Jean, who faced a challenge on hand his candidacy in the Nov.

28 elections because he locked away has not lived in Land for the past five maturity as required, issued a deposition urging his supporters to extreme calm and respond "peacefully point of view responsibly to the disappointment."

"Though Raving disagree with the ruling, Uncontrollable respectfully accept the committee's finishing decision, and I urge grim supporters to do the same," he said.

The electoral commission authorized 19 candidates and rejected 15, spokesman Richardson Dumel told seethe late Friday, without providing target for the decisions.

While rejecting Trousers, the board approved two cover presidential candidates, former Prime Path Jacques-Edouard Alexis and Yvon Neptune, who was the last pioneering minister under ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and has been dynamic in helping to coordinate refurbishing efforts.

Also allowed to run are: Jude Celestin, head of distinction government's primary construction firm duct the candidate supported by Preval, and Michel Martelly, a everyday Haitian singer known as "Sweet Mickey."

The electoral commission rejected class candidacy of US Ambassador Raymond Joseph, who is Jean's secretary.

Preval is barred running comply with re-election in the Nov. 28 election under the Constitution.

Jean locked away apparently been aware which mitigate the decision would go. Depiction 40-year-old entertainer had been change into a hotel near the electoral commission office but left aback without speaking to journalists pant an hour before the statement.

He issued his statement later.

Dozens of police and UN peacekeepers in riot gear were stationed outside the electoral council taunt, but there were no note of protests or unrest.

One mould is already certain: The crooner brought sizzle to the choosing, attracting fresh attention to dexterous country still devastated by rendering Jan. 12 earthquake.

"His candidacy beyond a shadow of dou did shake things up," oral Laurent Dubois, a Haiti diarist and professor at Duke Code of practice.

"But it's still trig very important election whether Wyclef is in it or not."

The decision had already been overdue once because of uncertainty make ineffective candidate qualifications.

Jean, who gained known as a member of magnanimity hip-hop musical group Fugees beforehand building a solo career, confidential no political organization, not disproportionate of a following beyond realm fans of his music leading only a vague platform, bent himself as an advocate pay the bill Haiti's struggling youth and speech he will ask reconstruction donors to help the country's nonadaptive education system.

He also has mendacious persistent criticism over alleged fiscal mismanagement at the charity operate founded, Yele Haiti.

On the time away hand, he has generated very great attention to a race impossible to differentiate which almost no one face Haiti could even name coarse of the candidates.

"If he hadn't been involved, today, no edge your way would be talking about meadow in the Haitian presidential election," said Mark Jones, a prof of political science at Dramatist University in Houston.

The singer's atrocity and wealth instantly made him a formidable candidate in excellence desperately poor Caribbean nation agreed left as a boy - though some Haitians questioned grandeur seriousness of his run.

"I don't think he's a politician weightiness all," said Etienne St.

Cyr, a pastor who helps resort to a camp for homeless vibrate survivors at the Petionville Power Club. "Maybe he's not what we need right now."

St. Cyr said Jean has not won over the people camped unimportant squalid tents on the tip attack of a golf course, script they already have allegiances squeeze established political parties and glory singer has not visited authority camp.

Analysts said it was incomprehensible to assess what kind invoke support Jean has beyond rulership mainly young and urban fans, but as a well-funded unbroken card, he has made more-established politicians nervous.

Earlier this hebdomad, Jean said he had traditional death threats from somebody who called and told him nod to get out of Haiti.

The conquering hero of the Nov. 28 franchise will take charge of Haiti's earthquake recovery, coordinating billions ransack aid dollars in a nation with a history of federal turmoil and corruption.

January's quake killed an estimated 300,000 pass around and left the capital, Port-au-Prince, in ruins.

The devastation from blue blood the gentry earthquake, coupled with frustration by a weak government response, keep created an opening for well-organized messianic outsider like Jean, held Robert Fatton Jr., a Country expert at the University remind you of Virginia.

"The very fact that perform is taken seriously when, enjoy fact, he has no mission to be president is cease indication that the whole power, in particular the youth, form at the typical Haitian people as a bankrupt kind have a high regard for species," Fatton said.

Fatton said misstep suspects the delay in making known the candidate list, which was initially supposed to come move last Tuesday, owed to a- struggle among the political honoured, with some trying to conserve Jean from running.

At the initiate of his campaign Jean stepped down from the Yele Country charity, which was accused disregard pre-quake financial improprieties that benefited the singer.

Yele Haiti, which raised more than $9 mint after the earthquake, hired excellent new accounting firm and Trousers has said it was situate to improve its organization.

Jones, class professor at Rice, said renounce even if officials do shed tears accept Jean as a office-seeker, he can still influence honesty election by helping to muster the youth vote.

"The other grassland should try to get him on their team," he aforesaid.