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René Préval

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René Préval

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Ex-President of Haiti (1943-2017)

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René Préval was a Haitian politician who served as the country's president at different periods during his life. He is significant in Haiti's modern history as one of the nation's political leaders during a turbulent era of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Person
Gender
Male
Origin
France

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  • The drug trade does not function well with a strong state, or a healthy state. It tries to corrupt the police force, it tries to corrupt the judiciary, and the executive. And drug trafficking thrives in a weak state.

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Key facts

Prime minister
Jacques-Édouard Alexis , Michèle Pierre-Louis , Jean-Max Bellerive
Preceded by
Boniface Alexandre
Succeeded by
Michel Martelly
President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Born
René Garcia Préval , ( 1943-01-17 ) 17 January 1943, Port-au-Prince , Haiti
Died
3 March 2017 (2017-03-03) (aged 74), Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Resting place
Marmelade , Haiti
Party
Lespwa (2006–2009), Patriotic Unity (2009–2015), Plateforme Vérité (2015–2017)
Other political affiliations
Fanmi Lavalas (1996–2006)
Spouse s
Solange Lafontant (Divorced in 1997), Geri Benoit (Divorced in 2009), Elisabeth Delatour (2009–2017; his death )
Alma mater
College of Gembloux , Catholic University of Leuven , University of Pisa
Profession
Agronomist

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Encyclopedic overview

René Garcia Préval ( French pronunciation: [ʁəne ɡaʁsja pʁeval]; 17 January 1943 – 3 March 2017) was a Haitian politician and agronomist who twice was President of Haiti, from early 1996 to early 2001, and again from mid-2006 to mid-2011. He was also Prime Minister from early to late 1991 under the presidency of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

In addition to being the first elected head of state since independence to serve a full term, the first to be elected to full terms of office without succeeding, the first to peacefully transfer power, and the first former prime minister to be elected president, Préval was also the first elected head of state in Haitian history to do so.

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