Jude Célestin (born June 19, 1962 in

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) is a

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an politician who was one of two presidential candidates heading off to the second round in the 2015 presidential election race. After an education in Port-au-Prince, Célestin studied

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

in Switzerland. Before he was nominated as the presidential candidate for President

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's Unity (INITE) party, he was the executive director of the government's construction ministry, the National Center of Equipment.

2010 elections

Célestin ran as leader of LAPEH ( Ligue Alternative pour le Progres et L'Émancipation Haïtienne). The first round of voting took place on November 28, and preliminary results showed law professor and former first lady

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in first place, with 31.4 percent of the vote. Célestin came next, with 22.5 percent, and singer Michel Joseph Martelly took third place with 21.8 percent. Widespread riots and reports of election fraud followed the announcement of these results. In December, Martelly supporters set fire to the INITE headquarters, located in the

suburb of Pétion-Ville. On February 3, INITE was forced to drop Célestin from the race. On 4 April 2011, a senior official announced that

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won the presidential run-off election against candidate

.Archibald, Randal C
Popular Carnival Singer Is Elected President of Haiti in a Landslide
"The New York Times". Apr 04, 2011. Retrieved on Apr 04, 2011. His LAPEH party urges job creation, fighting juvenile delinquency and providing for thousands of homeless street children in Port-au-Prince.

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