Gabriel Fortuné
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Comment: `bny would be as a Senator. This needs better references. DGG ( talk ) 21:06, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
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Jean Gabriel Fortuné, Gabriel Fortune and Jean Gabriel Fortune should redirect here
Jean Gabriel Fortuné is mayor of Les Cayes and a former senator in Haiti.[1][2] He is also a National Palace advisor and departmental delegate.[3] In 2019 he delivered the offer of a conditional resignation by Haiti's president, Jovenel Moise.[3]
In 1995 he was wounded during political unrest in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince.[4]
In 2008, when he was a senator, people protesting food prices stormed his hime.[5] In 2016, as a mayoral candidate, he pledged to replace all the latrines in Les Cayes with flush toilets.[6] In 2016, he criticized the speed of the central government's hurricame response after a police clash with protesters caused the death of a boy in Les Cayes.[7]
He announced his resignation as mayor in 2018 stating that protests had endangered his family.[8] His resignation was refused 100 days later.[9]
References
- ^ "Jean Gabriel Fortune: The biggest problem Haiti is facing right now is impunity and corruption". Haiti News for Haitian-Americans.
- ^ "Gabriel Fortuné mandaté par Jovenel Moise pour trouver une trêve politique". Le Nouvelliste.
- ^ a b "Advisor: Haiti President Jovenel Moïse Prepared to Resign, Conditionally". The Haiti Sentinel.
- ^ "HAITI: Violence Underlines Fragile Political Situation | Inter Press Service". www.ipsnews.net.
- ^ "Death toll rises in Haitian food price protests". April 7, 2008 – via www.reuters.com.
- ^ "Gabriel Fortuné promised to replace all latrines with flushing toilets in Les Cayes". Haiti Observer.
- ^ "Boy killed in Haiti amid protest over delay in hurricane aid". Caribbean Business. November 2, 2016.
- ^ "Haiti - FLASH : Gabriel Fortuné, the Mayor of Les Cayes resigns - HaitiLibre.com : Haiti news 7/7". www.haitilibre.com.
- ^ "iciHaiti - Politic : Nearly 100 days later... The resignation of Mayor of Les Cayes refused ! - iciHaiti.com : All the news in brief 7/7". IciHaiti.com.
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