Haiti Candidate List Omits 2 With U.S. Ties


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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: November 13, 2005

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti
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, Nov. 12 (AP) - Haitian electoral authorities issued a revised presidential
candidate list on Friday that omitted two Haitian businessmen who have been
living in the United States.

Dumarsais Siméus, owner of a food services company in Texas, and Samir Moura, a
longtime resident of Florida, were not among the 35 approved presidential
candidates. The coming election, for which no date has been set, will be the
first since a violent rebellion and widespread unrest led to the departure of
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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in 2004.

Haitian authorities have said for weeks that the Constitution bars any candidate
who has dual nationality and has not lived in the country for the past five
years.

Mr. Siméus won a legal appeal after being dropped from the first candidate list
last month, but the list has been reviewed again.

Both men have said they would run regardless of any decision by the electoral
council.

Rich Mahler
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