Christian Movement for a New Haiti Mouvement Chrétien pour une Nouvelle Haïti | |
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President | Luc Mesadieu |
Founded | 1991 |
Headquarters | Port-au-Prince |
Ideology | Christian democracy |
Political position | Centre to centre-right |
Chamber of Deputies | 0 / 119 |
Senate | 0 / 30 |
The Christian Movement for a New Haiti (Mouvement Chrétien pour une Nouvelle Haïti, Mochrenha) is a political party in Haiti.
The party was founded in 1991 by Evangelical Protestant churches. [1] Mochrenha was registered officially as a political party on 25 January 1999, but only on 13 July 1999 was it recognized by the electoral authorities. [2]
The party gained three seats in the Chamber of Deputies at the 2000 elections. [1] In the presidential elections of 7 February 2006, its candidate Luc Mesadieu won 3.35% of the popular vote. The party won in the 7 February 2006 Senate elections 4.9% of the popular vote and no Senators. In the 7 February and 21 April 2006 Chamber of Deputies elections, the party won 3 out of 99 seats.
In 2013, the party became a member of the Patriotic Movement of the Democratic Opposition (Mouvement Patriotique de l'Opposition Démocratique, MOPOD), a coalition of parties that oppose to President Michel Martelly. [1]
For the 2015 presidential election Renold Jean Claude Bazin was presented as the party's candidate. [3] For the 2015 parliamentary elections, the party presented 3 candidates for the Senate and 19 for the Chamber of Deputies. [4] [5] [6] [7]