The rapper Wyclef Jean: Haiti's next president?

It's official! Thursday, August 5 rapper Wyclef Jean has presented its candidature for the presidency of Haiti. The former leader of the group The Fugees, then run for the highest office of the Republic of Haiti. To take the reins of his homeland, Wyclef Jean is about to leave the United States and put her singing career. He confirmed the news on CNN's Larry King microphone.

At 37, the star duets with multiple hits, as recently with Shakira, finally realizing a longing that slumbered in him long ago. "Without the earthquake, I still waited ten years to do that," he told Time magazine. He continued: "If I can not give five years of my life to my country as president, while everything for which I sang nonsense, like civil rights." Meaning, Wyclef Jean has always given his struggle to escape his island of poverty. It has invested well before the tragic earthquake of January 12 during which 250,000 people perished.

Indeed, he founded here more than two years, the NGO "Yéle Haiti", meaning "a cry for Haiti". Today more than 1.5 million Haitians is homeless following the earthquake. The time is urgent and the former sidekick of Lauryn Hill has understood. The idea of taking political positions in his island germinated in him as evidenced by one of the songs he sang in 2004, "President". The final words were: "If I were president, I'd be elected on Friday assassinated on Saturday buried on Sunday and I would return to work on Monday. Hopefully they were not prescient.

In the race for the presidency, he will face his uncle, Raymond Joseph, Haiti's ambassador to the United States, also a candidate. Wyclef Jean has an advantage most important and popular media. Verdict November 28, the day of the Haitian presidential election.