Déjean Bélizaire

Déjean Bélizaire is a Haitian politician who served as president of the Senate from 1991 to 1993.^[1]

Bélizaire was born in 1935^[2] in Petite Rivière de l'Artibonite.^[1] He was the head of Haitian Students Union (UNEH) in the late 1950s.^[2] He is an engineer, who worked in Algeria and USA before returning to Haiti. He is a former chairman a center-left party Mouvement National Patriotique de 28 Novembre (MNP 28).^[3]

Bélizaire was elected to the Senate in 1990.^[1] He was the president of the Senate from 1991 to 31 January 1993. He was the president of the Senate when Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown in a coup d'état in September 1991.^[4]

In February 2016 Bélizaire was a candidate for the position of a provisional president,^[5] but lost the elections.

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