PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI—Haitian hip-hop star Wyclef Jean is not on the list of approved candidates who satisfy legal requirements to run in the country’s Nov. 28 presidential election, an electoral official said Thursday.
The presidential bid by the 40-year-old singer-songwriter and international celebrity had triggered widespread enthusiasm in his poor, earthquake-ravaged Caribbean homeland. But it had been challenged on the grounds he did not fully meet the requirements, including a key one on Haitian residency.
“He is not on the list as I speak,” the electoral official, a member of the country’s provisional electoral council who asked not to be identified, told Reuters.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/haiti/article/850231--wyclef-jean-not-on-haiti-presidential-candidates-list?bn=1
The presidential bid by the 40-year-old singer-songwriter and international celebrity had triggered widespread enthusiasm in his poor, earthquake-ravaged Caribbean homeland. But it had been challenged on the grounds he did not fully meet the requirements, including a key one on Haitian residency.
“He is not on the list as I speak,” the electoral official, a member of the country’s provisional electoral council who asked not to be identified, told Reuters.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/haiti/article/850231--wyclef-jean-not-on-haiti-presidential-candidates-list?bn=1
