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FORMER Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide urged thousands of people at a rally outside his home late on Wednesday to vote in this month’s elections.
Mr Aristide called on supporters of the Fanmi Lavalas party he founded to ensure that its leader Maryse Narcisse was elected president on October 25.
He also criticised August’s parliamentary elections, which he described as a “selection instead of an election.”
Mr Aristide was the Caribbean island’s first democratically elected president following the dictatorship of the Duvalier dynasty.
But he fell victim to two coups, one by members of the CIA-funded National Intelligence Service in 1991 and another in 2004, when US troops abducted him and flew him to Jamaica — ostensibly for his own safety.
After years in exile in South Africa, Mr Aristide returned to Haiti in 2011, receiving a hero’s welcome, despite the opposition of US President Barack Obama.
