Leslie François Manigat
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Leslie François Saint Roc Manigat (; August 16, 1930 – June 27, 2014) was a
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an politician who was elected as
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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
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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
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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
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as his Prime Minister in March. He was overthrown by general
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on June 20, 1988, in the
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. 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
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.


Death

He died on June 27, 2014, at the age of 83.


Family

Manigat was born in
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. His second wife,
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, 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
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of 2004. Nominees for the Prize were:
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.


Selected works

*Une date littéraire, un événement pédagogique -
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, 1962 *L'Amérique latine au XXe Siècle - History, Université de Paris I Sorbonne, 1973


Sources


Further reading

*''Bibliographie des Etudes littéraires haïtiennes 1804-1984'' (Bibliography of Haitian literary Studies) by Léon-François Hoffmann, EDICEF/AUPELF,
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, 1992 * *Editions Richelieu, Univers Contemporain,
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, 1973 *Jacques Nicolas Léger, ''Haiti: Her History and Her Detractors'', 1907


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Important Dates in Haïti's History
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