Jude Célestin (born June 19, 1962 in

Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince ( , ; ht, Pòtoprens ) is the capital and most populous city of Haiti. The city's population was estimated at 987,311 in 2015 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894. The metropolitan area is define ...

) 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 that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, and ...

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

Mirlande Manigat Mirlande Manigat (born Mirlande Hyppolite in Miragoâne, on November 3, 1940) is a Haitian constitutional law professor and candidate in the 2010 presidential election. She is the widow of former president Leslie Manigat and briefly served as Fir ...

in first place, with 31.4 percent of the vote. Célestin came next, with 22.5 percent, and singer

Michel Joseph 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 ...

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 Patriotic Unity ( ht, Inite Patriyotik, INITE), is a political party in Haiti founded on 28 November 2009. Its dissolution had been claimed by former leading members on 30 April 2019 but was then disputed by the current leadership. Its founder and ...

headquarters, located in the

suburb of

Pétion-Ville Pétion-Ville ( ht, Petyonvil) is a commune and a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the hills east and separate from the city itself on the northern hills of the Massif de la Selle. Founded in 1831 by president Jean-Pierre Boyer, it was named af ...

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

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 ...

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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Government-Backed Candidate Out of Haiti's Election

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