PORT-AU-PRINCE — Hip-hop star Wyclef Jean urged supporters to react “peacefully and responsibly” to some Haiti provisional electoral council ruling that he isn’t eligible to operate as being a presidential candidate from the Nov. 28 election.
Singer-songwriter Jean, 40, an international celebrity who’s common in his impoverished and earthquake-ravaged homeland, was left off the list of approved candidates published from the council.
Council spokesman Richard Dumel mentioned election officials accepted 19 candidacies and rejected 15 other people. Jean’s candidacy was turned down simply because he didn’t meet the residency requirement of owning lived in Haiti for 5 many years prior to the election.
Jean says inside a website posted in the Huffington Post: “Though I disagree with all the ruling, I respectfully accept the committee’s ultimate selection, and I urge my supporters to try and do a similar.”
He urged supporters to react “peacefully and responsibly to this disappointment.”
“Ultimately, we should respect the rule of law in order for our island to come to be the good nation we all aspire for it to become,” he says.
He vowed to carry on operating for Haiti’s renewal
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