Leslie François Saint Roc Manigat (August 16, 1930 – June 27, 2014) was a
Haiti
Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and s ...
an politician who was elected as
President of Haiti
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in a tightly controlled military held
election in January 1988. He served as President for only a few months, from February 1988 to June 1988, before being ousted by the military
in a coup d'état.
In education
Leslie Manigat was a professor at the prestigious l'Université de Paris-VIII
Vincennes
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, where he gave courses on World History. He also published articles on education in various Haitian newspapers: ''
Le Nouvelliste'', ''La Phalange'', and ''Le Matin''.
1988 Haitian presidential elections
According to the Provisional Electoral Council (''Conseil Electoral Provisoire'', or CEP) he won the
presidential election
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Elections by country
Albania
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of January 17, 1988 with 50.29% of the votes, defeating ten other candidates. However, voter turnout was well under 10%. Few historians and vote monitors consider this election to have been democratic.
He was inaugurated on February 7, 1988, and named
Martial Célestin
Martial Lavaud Célestin (October 4, 1913 – February 4, 2011) was named Prime Minister of Haïti by President Leslie Manigat in February 1988 under the provisions of the 1987 Constitution, and was approved by the Parliament that formed as ...
as his Prime Minister in March. He was overthrown by general
Henri Namphy
Henri Namphy (2 October 1932 – 26 June 2018) was a Haitian general and political figure who served as President of Haiti's interim ruling body, the National Council of Government, from 7 February 1986 to 7 February 1988. He served again as Pre ...
on June 20, 1988, in the
June 1988 Haitian coup d'état
The June 1988 Haitian coup d'état took place on 20 June 1988, when Henri Namphy overthrew Leslie Manigat. IACHRREPORT ON THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN HAITI OEA/Ser.L/V/II.74 doc. 9 rev. 1, 7 September 1988 Manigat, who won the military-cont ...
. He ran for president again in the
February 2006 election but was defeated, receiving 12.40% of the vote and placing a distant second behind
René Préval
René Garcia Préval (; 17 January 1943 – 3 March 2017)
was a Haitian politician and agronomist who served twice as President of Haiti; once from early 1996 to early 2001, and again from mid 2006 to mid 2011. He was also Prime Minister from ...
.
Death
He died on June 27, 2014, at the age of 83.
Family
Manigat was born 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 ...
. His second wife,
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 F ...
, whom he married in 1970, was a candidate in the
2010 presidential election.
Award
Leslie Manigat won The Haiti Grand Prize of literature 2004, given at the
Miami Book Fair International
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The fair brings over 300 national and international authors exhibitors to a weeklong gathering and includes pavilions for translation, ...
of 2004. Nominees for the Prize were:
Edwidge Danticat,
René Depestre
René Depestre (born 29 August 1926, Jacmel, Haiti) is a Haitian poet and former communist activist. He is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in Haitian literature. He lived in Cuba as an exile from the Duvalier regime for man ...
,
Jean-Claude Fignolé,
Odette Roy Fombrun,
Frankétienne
Frankétienne (born Franck Étienne on April 12, 1936, in Ravine-Sèche, Haiti) is a Haitian writer, poet, playwright, painter, musician, activist and intellectual. He is recognized as one of Haiti's leading writers and playwrights of both Fren ...
,
Gary Klang,
Dany Laferrière
Dany Laferrière (born Windsor Kléber Laferrière, 13 April 1953) is a Haitian-Canadian novelist and journalist who writes in French. He was elected to seat 2 of the Académie française on 12 December 2013, and inducted in May 2015.
Life
Bo ...
and
Josaphat-Robert Large
Josaphat-Robert Large (November 15, 1942 – October 28, 2017) was a Euro-Haitian-American poet, novelist and art critic. His novel ''Les terres entourées de larmes'' hore surrounded with tearswon the prestigious Prix littéraire des Cara ...
.
Selected works
*Une date littéraire, un événement pédagogique -
Essay
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,
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 ...
, 1962
*L'Amérique latine au XXe Siècle - History, Université de Paris I
Sorbonne
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*one of its components or linked institution, ...
, 1973
Sources
Further reading
*''Bibliographie des Etudes littéraires haïtiennes 1804-1984'' (Bibliography of Haitian literary Studies) by Léon-François Hoffmann, EDICEF/AUPELF,
Vanves
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History
On 1 January 1860, the city of Paris ...
, 1992
*
*Editions Richelieu, Univers Contemporain,
Paris
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, 1973
*Jacques Nicolas Léger,
''Haiti: Her History and Her Detractors'', 1907
External links
Important Dates in Haïti's History
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1930 births
2014 deaths
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