Marc Bazin
Marc Louis Bazin | |
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Minister of Finance and Economy | |
In office February 3, 1982 – July 12, 1982 | |
President | Jean-Claude Duvalier |
Preceded by | Emmanuel Bros |
Succeeded by | Frantz Merceron |
Personal details | |
Born | Saint-Marc, Haiti | March 6, 1932
Died | June 16, 2010 Port-au-Prince, Haiti | (aged 78)
Political party | Mouvement for the Instauration of Democracy in Haiti (MIDH) |
Spouse | Marie-Yolaine Sam |
Profession | Lawyer |
Marc Louis Bazin (March 6, 1932 – June 16, 2010) was a World Bank official, former United Nations functionary and Haitian Minister of Finance and Economy under the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier. He was prime minister of Haiti appointed on June 4, 1992, by the military government that had seized power on September 30, 1991.
Life
Born in Saint-Marc, his father, Louis Bazin was a member of the elite in
He was considered to be the favorite Haitian presidential candidate of the George H. W. Bush administration and the bourgeois population of Haiti. When the country could no longer last in foreign relations as a military dictatorship and had to open the government up to free elections in 1990, Bazin was seen as a front runner if the elections were to happen before the Left in Haiti had time to reorganize.[2]
Ultimately, Bazin received 14% of the vote,
Bazin was also a fervent political opponent of Aristide, and ran in the 2006 election for the presidency of Haiti,[7] but was reported to have received only about 0.68% of the vote in the 35-candidate race.
Bazin died of prostate cancer at his home in Pétion-Ville, Port-au-Prince on 16 June 2010.
References
- ISBN 9780810878105.
- ISBN 978-0-7658-0733-5
- ^ CIA World Factbook 1992 Archived 2 October 1999 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Love and Haiti". Retrieved 27 April 2024 – via The New Republic.
- ISBN 978-1-57806-860-9
- ^ "Star-News - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ Haiti Elections Washington Post