Kely Bastien is a

Haiti Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...

an politician and former president of the Parliament of Haiti. He was born 1965 in Acul-du-Nord, and is a physician by profession. He served as the president of the

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in 1990s. He was elected to the

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in 2006 as

LESPWA Fwon Lespwa was a Haitian political coalition headed by René Préval, who served as president from 1996 to 2001 and from 2006 to 2011. The name ''Lespwa'' is the Haitian Creole form of the French ''l'espoir'', meaning "hope". The coalition's fu ...

party candidate. He was elected as the president of the

from 2008 to 2011. A member of president

René Préval René Garcia Préval (; 17 January 1943 – 3 March 2017) was a Haitian Politics of Haiti, politician and agronomist who twice was President of Haiti, from early 1996 to early 2001, and again from mid-2006 to mid-2011. He was also List of Prime ...

party, he was trapped in rubble following the

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, but was found alive and transported to the

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for treatment.

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1965 births Living people Presidents of the Senate (Haiti) Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Haiti) Lespwa politicians Haitian physicians {{Haiti-politician-stub