九乡新闻网蝙蝠侠恐惧多重击倒:Former President Aristide might return to Haiti in days: reports
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Former President Aristide might return to Haiti in days: reports
14:18, March 17, 2011 
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stumbleupon Haiti's exiled former President Jean Bertrand Aristide is likely to return to Haiti these days, Haitian media reported on Wednesday.Haitian daily Le Nouvelliste on Wednesday headlined in its first page: "Will Aristide return on Thursday? ... Suspense", while adding a cartoon of Aristide with his luggage in front of a desk at an airport.
The newspaper quoted Arsitide's Fanmi Lavalas party spokeswoman Maryse Narcisse as saying that "the press will be there," but she did not confirm if Aristide would return on Thursday.
On Jan. 20 this year, Aristide announced his intention to return to Haiti after former strongman Jean Claude Duvalier suddenly returned to the country on Jan. 16.
Haitian radio station Radio Metropole said at its website that Aristide would leave South Africa on Thursday, quoting a senior official of the South African government.
"(Former) President Aristide will take a plane on Thursday noon. The details of his trip will be announced in a press conference just before his departure," Metropole said.
Aristide's lawyer Ira Kurzban said on Wednesday that his client will not delay his return to Haiti until the country's presidential and legislative elections end.
Aristide "is worried that the change of government will make him stay in South Africa," Kurzban said in a statement.
"The United States should leave this decision to the democratically elected government (of Haiti) instead of setting conditions for the return of a Haitian citizen to his country," he added.
The United States Monday requested Aristide to delay his return until the elections close.
Aristide went to exile in South Africa in 2004 after an armed conflict in his country and under the pressure of the international community.
Aristide was elected president in 1990 and took office on Feb. 7, 1991. Eight months later, however, he was overthrown by General Raoul Cedars. He sought asylum in the United States and returned to power in 1994. In 2000, he was re-elected president of Haiti.
Haiti currently is trying to end a political crisis triggered by disputes about the first round of presidential and legislative elections held in November 2010, whose results were rejected by the opposition citing electoral fraud.
Haiti is expected to hold the second round of presidential and legislative elections on Sunday.
"It is a very difficult moment (for Haiti). Aristide's arrival for sure will complicate the elections," expert Michel Soukar told Xinhua.
Source: Xinhua
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