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Council in Haiti said to have ruled against hip-hop singer's candidacy.
Wyclef Jean will not be allowed to run for president of Haiti, Reuters reported Thursday. The news service cited an unnamed source on the country's provisional electoral council, which had been charged with deciding the eligibility of about 35 presidential contenders. The council is expected to make an official announcement later today.

The adverse ruling would not surprise students of Haiti's 1987 Constitution. The biggest obstacle to the hip-hop star's candidacy has been a constitutional requirement that all candidates live in Haiti for five consecutive years prior to the election, scheduled for Nov. 28

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maybe Wyclef could collaborate with anothe candidate if he really want to help Haiti...

thats a waste of time wyclef as president.

the man better stay in america write music and raise funds, that he himself funnels to haiti, directly to the people...not through any damm aid agency

Wyclef has his own Charity Yele Haiti
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When Wyclef Jean's charity, Yele Haiti, came under fire in January for its history of financial mismanagement as it was raking in millions of donations from people desperate to help Haiti's earthquake victims, Jean acknowledged past mistakes and promised to scale up Yele Haiti's operations to have a more immediate impact in the wake of the quake.

BallOil wrote:Wyclef has his own Charity Yele Haiti
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When Wyclef Jean's charity, Yele Haiti, came under fire in January for its history of financial mismanagement as it was raking in millions of donations from people desperate to help Haiti's earthquake victims, Jean acknowledged past mistakes and promised to scale up Yele Haiti's operations to have a more immediate impact in the wake of the quake.

if dat is where wyclef start dont yu see the future of any presidency of his.

dat bwoy doh have a clue. he will end up hurting haiti more than helping as is already the case with his charity. we cyar even depend on dat and he is supposed to be so concerned .

the first freakin thing he should have done was to make absolutely certain that the money reached the people directly. and that from this report and from what I understand is happenihng on the ground in haiti..is not happening.

the key in any sincere charititable response to such a disaster given all the eperience we have is to keep the organisation very spare indeed..few people, defined verifiable collection, direct distribution in the most effective and diect manner possible....and the most effective record-keeping one can muster.

if a lot of money is coming in there could easily be an explosion of hands around it...a bureaucracy that must be paid can very quicjkly spring up around the donations and presto the whole pupose of the effort is defeated.

if wyclef did not know that and already has created a bureaucractic monster in which the money is disappearing he will be lost as president running the nation.

so what this introduces to my mind is that wyclef is an ambitious fool looking for power and glory ,and the interest of the people of haiti with whom he is supposed to be so emotionally tied, has given way to his personal ambition.

wyclef is a joke. he would become an immediate tool of the americans as president and it would be the same old same old again

well now he can't run for president...lets hope he continue to help the people of Haiti

man the thing to do is to give the people money directly. send the money to haiti. use the 15k monthly rental to set up a bank....complete with all the services and storage for accounts.

if per capita is 1k a year den give as many people as you can directly 100usd per month. if the people have money den all the services will reappear..groceries etc and things will get rolling again.

you give the people the money...start accounts for them in your bank and they can keep it there and use it as they go.

and that bank can begin to facilitate imports from agents you set up in the states and elsewhere. the bank can set up importers in haiti who would import from the agents you have set you abroad. yu would have to gurantee payments until things solidify.

that is what you do..in a big way with the millions you collect. direct financial dealings..so you dont have to develop time consuming expensive infrastructure for buying and delivering food etc.

put the money direftly into the situation,...set up the people to do the work of taking care of themseles and they would.

the NGO's that do all that stuff intend to control the people to justify their own existence...to prove they are needed by doing all the people must do for themselves.

you dont want to do that! yu put the money in the hands of the people and they will set themselves up. and you help them do that every step of the way..by identifying agents of import of all the people need..by setting up local businesses...by having some people on the ground who can show the people what to do all along the way until they can carry on for themselves etc.

wyclef looks the ass to me. he has jumped into a sea among sharks he has no experience with. this is not teaching yourself english. the only emergency he faced then was limited to him and his inability to speak the langaue of a nation he migrated to.

it will take a lot of time for wyclef to be sophistcated enough to swim successfully with those sharks, and even then he would not be able to match their power in their own thing.

wyclef has to do something different, direct and honest with his people who are desperate NOW! and cant wait!

Wyclef seh he will fight..

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and he may well win. it all depends..on if the he is Obamas bwoy. if he is deh will change the constitutions fuh him.

but let me state clearly my positon if that is iportant at all! wyclef is a waste of time. more shit fuh the haitian people if he gets in.

wyclef is a political neophyte who would be dependant on the enemies of haitia for election and survival.

wyclef is an ideological non-entity who has expressed no ideological position at all. from what postion will he govern should he win? what is his program...wy is that hsi program if he has one!

and he is being covered already by the enemies of haiti..covered by the established media..a very bad sign!

thanks but no to wyclef. I loved his music! from what i have seen of him so far as politician there is nothing to like!

if the haitian constitution estanblishes is ruels and references it is not to change the constitution for one man. and that man should not countennance any such thing as a change just for him. the constitution should be respected. it is wyclef to esxcuse himself now and go live in Haiti to qualify while he builds his political consensus and grouping, spread his progam in efforts to change things for the better whether he is president or not.

and to run for the president if the existing leadrship does not do the job.

the change for the better is what is necessary ..not who is president. as long as the change is accomplished.

whyclef must live in haiti if he wants to run the country. he must build a political consensus in haiti while living in, working in and committed to haiti.

thats all there is to it. iof he does not now that he ie merely a parachute politician dropped in to do the bidding of some power who set him up to do so.

shame on wyclef allowing himself to be so used. all of a sudden the '..fugee' I liked is not so likeable anymore