Konvansyon Inite Demokratik (KID) (English: ''Convention for a Democratic Unity'') (French: ''Convention (de l') Unité Démocratique'') is a

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political party in Haiti which originated in 1986 as a political pressure group, and which was formally made into a political party in 1995. The party has also been referred to as the Komite Inite Demokratik (Confederation of Democratic Unity) and the Konfederasyon Inite Demokratik (Democratic United/Unity Committee). After the 2015-16 elections, KID emerged with 2 seats in the

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and 7 in the

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. One of the party's founding members,

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, served as Prime Minister under President

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and interim president Jocelerme Privert between January 16, 2015 and February 26, 2016. In 2015, KID was accused by the Conseil Électoral Provisoire (CEP), Haiti's main election body, of election-day disruptions in the Artibonite department.

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