Gone In November: Wyclef Jean Ruled Ineligible For Haiti Presidency

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by Steve Krakauer | 11:04 pm, August 20th, 2010

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Remember all that talk about musician Wyclef Jean running for President of Haiti? Well now that’s not happening.

An election council rules Jean ineligible to run as a presidential candidate tonight.

A council member told Reuters Thursday that Jean did not meet several of the legal requirements to stand in the November election to choose a successor to President Rene Preval, who cannot run again after two terms.

He was among 34 candidates considered by the electoral authority, which had postponed announcing the final list of approved candidates from Tuesday.

Sounds like Sean Penn will be happy.

Here’s Wyclef announcing his run on CNN earlier this month:

CNN, Haiti, Wyclef Jean

BatBoy

Oh no…and this would have been such a good source of income for Wyclef!

He could have been making money from governments from around the world.

It would have been such a “Democrat” thing to do.

Had Wyclef got elected, you know for sure that Jesse J and Al S would have been looking for a country to run.
Azarkhan

Good news.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/08/21/sweden.wikileaks.charge/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1
NORBIT

1) How long will it take the Progressive Left to start screaming RACISM! over this?

2) Are those Black Council Members now due for a good-old fashioned SEIU Beatdown for not following the Progressive Religion?
TeaPartyPatriot

Here’s the real reason jean was declared ineligible: he lacks the MOST IMPORTANT QUALIFICATION to be President: — he was never a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER.