The Christian Movement for a New Haiti (''Mouvement Chrétien pour une Nouvelle Haïti'', Mochrenha) is a

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History

The party was founded in 1991 by Evangelical Protestant churches. Mochrenha was registered officially as a political party on 25 January 1999, but only on 13 July 1999 was it recognized by the electoral authorities. The party gained three seats in the Chamber of Deputies at the 2000 elections. In the

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of 7 February 2006, its candidate

Luc Mesadieu Luc Mesadieu is a Haitian political figure and member of the political party New Christian Movement for a New Haiti (Mochrena). Mesadieu has been a political opponent of former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He has been attacked in his ...

won 3.35% of the popular vote. The party won in the 7 February 2006 Senate

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4.9% of the popular vote and no Senators. In the 7 February and 21 April 2006 Chamber of Deputies

, the party won 3 out of 99 seats. In 2013, the party became a member of the

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(''Mouvement Patriotique de l'Opposition Démocratique'', MOPOD), a coalition of parties that oppose to President

Michel Martelly Michel Joseph Martelly (; born 12 February 1961) is a Haitian musician and politician who was the President of Haiti from May 2011 until February 2016. He was sanctioned by the Canadian Government for his involvement in human rights violations ...

. For the 2015 presidential election Renold Jean Claude Bazin was presented as the party's candidate. For the 2015 parliamentary elections, the party presented 3 candidates for the Senate and 19 for the Chamber of Deputies.Accepted candidates for deputy

References

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