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Wyclef Jean starts campaign to become Haitian president
Wyclef Jean starts campaign to become Haitian president - Telegraph
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"The United States has Obama, here you're going to have Wyclef," Jean said in his first public comment.
A crowd of young supporters sporting red and white t-shirts gathered in the Demas neighbourhood of the capital to escort Jean as he filed his documents at the electoral council office.
He was also joined by several advisors and his wife and daughter.
"The entire world is watching us today, I represent all Haitians," he added, to applause from his supporters.
"We have to live together, work together to change Haiti, open more schools," added Jean, who encouraged the youths around him to get voting cards.
"I'm asking you not for money, but your power for change," added Jean, who told his supporters he would bring rap superstar 50 Cent to Haiti.
Jean's bid for the presidency of quake-hit nation has won support from some in Haiti, where many hail him as a hero, but has also drawn sneers from politicians sceptical of a hip-hop star in the national palace.
The Haitian-born Grammy award winner later told CNN's "Larry King Live" program he hoped to usher in a new era for the impoverished Caribbean nation.
"I think 200 years we have suffered the exact same thing and what I'm saying is when you vote for Wyclef Jean, you basically try something new," Jean said. "I represent the voice of the youth which is over 50 percent of the population."
Jean, founder of hit 1990s group The Fugees, said his inspiration to enter politics emerged from the rubble of the devastating January 12 earthquake which left 250,000 people dead and 1.5 million homeless.
"After January 12th, the day after coming and being out here with my wife and picking up dead bodies from the ground, I felt that because of the youth of Haiti and the population, that this is not even Wyclef saying that I want to be the president of Haiti. I feel like I'm being drafted by the population right now to give them a different face, a different voice," Jean said.
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President who talks about himself in the third person: not a good sign.
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