Leslie Manigat

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name =Leslie François Manigat
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order =35th
office =President of Haiti
term_start =February 7, 1988
term_end =June 20, 1988
primeminister =Martial Célestin
predecessor =Henri Namphy
successor =Henri Namphy
birth_date =August 13, 1930
birth_place =Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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Leslie François Manigat (born August 13, 1930 in Port-au-Prince) was elected president of Haiti by a tightly controlled military held election in January 1988.

According to the Provisional Electoral Council ("Conseil Electoral Provisoire", or CEP) he won the presidential election 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, but was overthrown by Gen. Henri Namphy on June 20 1988. 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.

elected works

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

In education

Leslie Manigat is also an educator. He was a professor at the prestigious l'Université de Paris-VIII Vincennes Sorbonne where he gave courses on World History. He also published articles on Education in various Haitian Newspapers: Le Nouvelliste, La Phalange, Le Matin.

Award

Leslie Manigat won The Haiti Grand Prize of literature 2004, given at the Miami Book Fair International of 2004. Nominees for the Prize were: Edwidge Danticat, René Depestre, Jean-Claude Fignolé, Odette Roy-Fombrun, Frankétienne, Gary Klang, Dany Laferrière and Josaphat-Robert Large.

External links

* [http://haiti.uhhp.com/important_dates/important_dates15.html Important Dates in Haïti's History]

ources

*Bibliographie des Etudes littéraires haïtiennes 1804-1984 (Bibliography of Haitian literary Studies) by Léon-François Hoffmann, EDICEF/AUPELF, Vanves, 1992
*Encyclopaedia Britannica Online (Haitian History)
*Editions Richelieu, Univers Contemporain, Paris, 1973