Michel Martelly and club owner in Haiti in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Martelly became associated with the neo-Duvalierist Haitian military and police, including figures such as police chief Michel François, and he agreed with the 1991 Haitian coup d'état against Jean-Bertrand Aristide. In 1995, after Aristide had been restored to office, Martelly's name appeared on a hit list of coup supporters, and he stayed away from Haiti for almost a year. During this time, he released a song, "Prezidan" (on the album "Pa Manyen"), "an exuberant ditty that called for a president who played compas". However, he did not run
Michel Randria was dismissed by a decree of the PSD-dominated Council of Ministers a few months later. He acted as adviser to his eldest son, Lucien Xavier Michel-Andrianarahinjaka, who became President of the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar. Michel Randria died on 1 December 1977 in Fianarantsoa at the age of 74. Michel Randria Michel Randria (1 June 1903 – 1 December 1977) was a Malagasy teacher and politician who was a senator for French Madagascar from 1948 to 1952. Michel Randria was born on 1 June 1903 in Fianarantsoa, in Betsileo country in the south of the central