Haiti news: Successful weekend for Mirlande Manigat

Successful weekend for the candidate of NPDR. If its meeting last Saturday at the Bel-Air neighborhood-one of the capital-has not attracted large crowds, Mirlande Manigat may, cons, console themselves with his triumphant tour in the North-East where she was greeted by thousands of people. Health, education, sanitation, decentralization ... Anyway, she promised to change the lives of the poor and put the country on track of development, once in office.
The cry of "Mamma Banma-m, Mirlande prezidan already, several hundred people cheered last Saturday at the Bel-Air the candidate of the Rally of Progressive National Democrats (NPDR). After Solino and Cité Soleil, the reception was rather warm for Mirlande Manigat in this popular area of the capital, once considered lawless zone where young people are virtually left to fend for themselves. "Under the Constitution, primary education is free. If you want that to happen, remember that''devan devan net, "chanted the candidate under the applause of the public supported by bands of Rara.
In a dialogue more or less successfully with the crowd, Ms. Manigat tried to convince her to take the polls March 20 to vote in his favor. The interventions of several national team players, senators and Youri Latortue Evalière Bauplan helped electrify the audience.
Moreover, some young people of Bel-Air, interviewed by The News after the meeting, expressed their reservation on the promise of education for all and improving living conditions made by the candidate. "We're used to that kind of promise, they said. The first thing one expects from a president is to find how to change this negative perception that this young Bel-Air as the thugs and criminals ... "
Mirlande Manigat full house in the North-East
There were thousands of people who have been upset the past weekend to see and hear the candidate of NPDR in Trou du Nord, Fort Liberte and Ouanaminthe in the North-East.
"During his visit in the department, she went to Trou-du-Nord, place his first call where a population superheated had come to listen the former first lady to deliver his speech, noted correspondent Nouvelliste in the area, Hansy Mars. Then she went to Fort Freedom, and again the crowd, which proved attentive to the statements of Ms. Manigat, spent more than half an hour under a blazing sun as if to show its support for the candidate. "
Supported by men of COREH, Senator Northeast dismissed Rudolph Boulos, and Me Aviola Fleurant, a lawyer and native of the area, the candidate Aimee felt more by its reception and already believes that the Northeast is a foregone conclusion.
Mirlande Manigat has promised it will behave like a true mother, anxious, faithful to the people that already she regards as her son and daughters. However, she said that mom will in due course to enforce the principles.
On the other hand, the candidate responded to remarks made by his rival Repon Peyizan against him, how she would be physically unable to properly play his role as President of the Republic. "I am 71 years old, but Martelly, 50 years, can not consider himself a young," Ms. Manigat dropped in response to his detractor. She says physical force is not enough to govern a country, we have more things in my head, because, she said, it does not govern with the feet but with the head.
For Mirlande Manigat, his five-year will be the takeoff point for the development of Haiti. She argued that each sector of the country will be considered for its value to create more wealth.
This Monday, February 28, the candidate went to woo the electorate Martissant, another district of the capital.
Furthermore, speaking at the weekend passed at the 22nd International Meeting of CARICOM to the island of Grenada, the secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS) Jose Miguel Insulza said that "Haiti needs a good second round so that the next president may enjoy the necessary legitimacy. "It is important for reconstruction efforts," he added.