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Political party in Haiti
Lavalas Family
Famille Lavalas Fanmi Lavalas
Leader
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Founded
30 October 1996
Split from
Lavalas Political Organization
Headquarters
HT6110 Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti
Ideology
Social democracy Populism
Political position
Centre-left
Colors
Blue
Chamber of Deputies
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Senate
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Politics of Haiti
Political parties
Elections
Fanmi Lavalas (English: Lavalas Family, Lavalas is Haitian Creole for flood), is a social-democratic political party in Haiti. Its leader is former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. It has been a powerful force in Haitian politics since 1991. Fanmi Lavalas governments advocate a policy of "growth with equity" based on Western European social democratic principles. Fanmi Lavalas governments have emphasised investment in education and health care as their priorities and have refused International Monetary Fund austerity measures.
FanmiLavalas (English: Lavalas Family, Lavalas is Haitian Creole for flood), is a social-democratic political party in Haiti. Its leader is former Haitian...
Look up lavalas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lavalas, the Haitian Creole word for "avalanche", may refer to: The Lavalas Political Organization...
shore up its position. Receiving de facto state support from Aristide's FanmiLavalas party, the youth gangs took control of entire communes and became increasingly...
been accused by FanmiLavalas supporters of allowing the Haitian National Police to commit atrocities and massacres against Lavalas supporters and Haitian...
for René Préval of FanmiLavalas. The parliamentary elections, held on 25 June, 13 August and 17 September, were also won by Lavalas. Voter turnout was...
Desalin), Jovenel Moïse (Parti Haïtien Tèt Kale), and Maryse Narcisse (FanmiLavalas). Each of the six, except for Beauzile, "have had strong ties to one...
of Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his FanmiLavalas (Flood Family). USAID and the IRI attempted to form a rump Lavalas organization with Marc Bazin, but Aristide...
politiques, and Compromis Historique/RED/EDE), two political parties (FanmiLavalas and Platfòm Pitit Desalin), and "the private sector". The non-voting...
Aristide broke with Préval and formed a new political party, the Lavalas Family (FanmiLavalas, FL), which won elections in April 1997 for one-third of the...
occurred, was largely governed by Aristide-backed gangs affiliated with FanmiLavalas who monitored visitors via two roads that accessed the slum. In February...
the early 2000s, Morse has also criticized Jean-Bertrand Aristide and FanmiLavalas through his music. Morse is a United States citizen. His cousin Michel...
these seats were won by FanmiLavalas Party. By the time President Aristide started his second term in February 2001, FanmiLavalas held 27 of the Senate...
184 and an opponent of Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his FanmiLavalas political party and pro-Lavalas were suspected of carrying out his murder. Jacques Roche...
slaves to Haiti.[citation needed] In 2000, Nawoon Marcellus, a member of FanmiLavalas from Saint-Raphaël, became the first Muslim elected to the Chamber of...
education, that was united in opposition to Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his FanmiLavalas party. The name derives from the number of organizations in the group...
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overthrew Aristide in 1991. In 1996 he was elected president under the FanmiLavalas party and served out his term ending in 2001. Under his previous administration...
in the November 2016 Haitian presidential election, representing the FanmiLavalas party. Maryse Narcisse was born in Pétion-Ville. She is the daughter...