Wyclef Will NOT Be Haiti's Next President

[FlipSide]

Wyclef Jean will not be the next President of Haiti, the electoral council of Haiti has decided that Wyclef was not on the list of approved candidates who satisfy legal requirements to run in the election.

A representative from the CEP, Haiti's electoral council, announced to the press after Wyclef met with Haitian President Rene Preval for more than two hours on Thursday.

Wyclef told the Associated Press that he felt the exchange with Rene Preval was positive.

“I feel good,” the former Fugees frontman said. “I feel that the president that I voted for five years ago is the same person that was sitting in front of me today.”

The country’s electoral council, which is known as the CEP, was supposed to release the presidential candidate list on Tuesday, but postponed the decision.

It was a long shot for Wyclef to get chosen, Haiti’s electoral law requires candidates to have five consecutive years of residency in Haiti, among other requirements, such as tax compliance. Wyclef has said he meets those requirements. Well, apparently Wyclef didn't, better luck in 2015.

[complexity]

In related news, we will not be landing on Mars tomorrow.

[Kuhlerblynd]

Damn it I was looking forward to the Mars landing.

[LogiK]

Lol@ Him Runnin For President..

[TheNobleOne]

immortal tech for haitis pres!

[JDR]

haha. I know this topics been up for a minute but I had to comment on it. I know Wyclefs uncle is the ambassador to the U.S. but that don't mean shit for him. Pretty sure he doesn't have much of a background in running a government and Haiti is far too messed up to take a celeb charity case. He could have that country more screwed than it already is. How he gon' say he's met requirments when he aint lived in Haiti in awhile.

[IntrinsicCadence]

His argument was that the former president had named him a 'goodwill ambassador' and told him to go out into the world and build relationships for haiti. so wyclef said that's why he shouldn't have to meet the residence requirements.

i guess he's got some sort of charity out there in haiti thats supposed to be doing some pretty good things, but theres also been a bunch of calls out that he's been skimming off the top of his charity and doing shit like paying himself huge fees to play concerts where the money goes to his charity, but since his charity pays him a ton to perform its like he's not actually gettin much money out where it's needed, it all just circles back around to his own pocket.