Déjean Bélizaire is a Haitian politician who served as president of the

Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

from 1991 to 1993. Bélizaire was born in 1935 in

Petite Rivière de l'Artibonite Petite Rivière de l'Artibonite (; ) is a List of communes of Haiti, commune in the Dessalines Arrondissement, in the Artibonite (department), Artibonite Departments of Haiti, department of Haiti. It is located in the Artibonite Valley, with the c ...

. He was the head of Haitian Students Union (UNEH) in the late 1950s. He is an engineer, who worked in Algeria and USA before returning to Haiti. He is a former chairman a center-left party Mouvement National Patriotique de 28 Novembre ( MNP 28). Bélizaire was elected to the

in 1990. He was the president of the

from 1991 to 31 January 1993. He was the president of the Senate when

Jean-Bertrand Aristide Jean-Bertrand Aristide (; born 15 July 1953) is a Haitian former Salesian priest and politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president in 1991 before being deposed in a coup d'état. As a priest, he taught liberation theo ...

was overthrown in a coup d'état in September 1991. In February 2016 Bélizaire was a candidate for the position of a provisional president, but lost the elections.

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