Michel Martelly for political office until 2010, when he became a candidate for President of Haiti. After the catastrophic earthquake, Martelly won the Haitian general election, 2010–11 for his party Repons Peyizan ("Farmers' Response Party"), after a run-off against candidate Mirlande Manigat. Martelly had come in third in the first round of the election, until the Organization of American States forced Jude Célestin to withdraw due to alleged fraud. Martelly assumed his position of the President of Haiti on 14 May 2011 after René Préval retired to his home in Marmelade. His election campaign included a promise to reinstate the nation's military,
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