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{{Short description|Haitian politician (1932–2010)}}
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| image           =
| name            = Marc Louis Bazin
| office          = Minister without portfolio
| term_start      = March 14, 2002
| term_end        = September 20, 2002
| president       = [[Jean-Bertrand Aristide]]
| primeminister   = [[Yvon Neptune]]
| predecessor     = 
| successor       = Robert Ulysse
| office2         = Minister of Planning and External Cooperation
| term_start2     = March 2, 2001
| term_end2       = January 21, 2002
| president2      = [[Jean-Bertrand Aristide]]
| primeminister2  = [[Jean Marie Chérestal]]
| predecessor2    = Anthony Dessources
| successor2      = Paul Duret
| office3         = [[List of heads of state of Haiti|President of Haiti]]<br /><small>(Provisional)</small>
| term_start3     = June 19, 1992
| term_end3       = June 15, 1993
| primeminister3  = ''Himself''
| predecessor3    = [[Joseph Nérette]]
| successor3      = [[Émile Jonassaint]]
| office4         = 4th [[Prime Minister of Haiti]]
| term_start4     = June 19, 1992
| term_end4       = August 30, 1993
| president4      = Himself
| predecessor4    = [[Jean-Jacques Honorat]]
| successor4      = [[Robert Malval]]
| office5         = [[List of Finance Ministers of Haiti|Minister of Finance and Economy]]
| term_start5     = February 3, 1982
| term_end5       = July 12, 1982
| president5      = [[Jean-Claude Duvalier]]
| predecessor5    = Emmanuel Bros
| successor5      = Frantz Merceron
| birth_date      = {{Birth date|1932|03|06}}
| birth_place     = [[Saint-Marc]], Haiti
| death_date      = {{Death date and age|2010|06|16|1932|03|06|mf=yes}}
| death_place     = [[Port-au-Prince]], Haiti
| party           = National Unity Party (1957-1986)<br>Mouvement for the Instauration of Democracy in Haiti (MIDH)
| spouse          = Marie-Yolaine Sam
| relations       =
| children        =
| residence       =
| alma_mater      =
| occupation      =
| profession      = Lawyer
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'''Marc Louis Bazin''' ({{IPA|fr|maʁk lwi bazɛ̃}}; March 6, 1932 – June 16, 2010) was a [[World Bank]] official, former [[United Nations]] functionary and [[Haiti]]an Minister of Finance and Economy under the dictatorship of [[Jean-Claude Duvalier]]. He was prime minister of Haiti appointed on June 4, 1992, by the military government that had seized power on September 30, 1991.

== Life ==
Born in Saint-Marc, his father, Louis Bazin was a member of the elite in [[Artibonite (department)|Artibonite]]. He studied law and economics at the Solvay Institute in Brussels and later worked as an economist for the [[World Bank]] from 1972 to 1976. Bazin served as [[List of Finance Ministers of Haiti|Minister of Finance and Economy]] for six months in 1982.<ref>{{cite book |last=R. Hall |first=Michael |date=2012 |title=Historical Dictionary of Haiti |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3RbzX4PjxtgC&q=Joseph+N%C3%A9rette |publisher=Scarecrow Press |page=35 |isbn=9780810878105 }}</ref>

He was considered to be the favorite Haitian presidential candidate of the [[George H. W. Bush]] administration and the bourgeois population of Haiti. When the country could no longer last in foreign relations as a military dictatorship and had to open the government up to free elections in 1990, Bazin was seen as a front runner if the elections were to happen before the Left in Haiti had time to reorganize.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=PeLnuB7HR08C&pg=PA238 ''Haiti: best nightmare on Earth''], Herbert Gold, Transaction Publishers, 2001, {{ISBN|978-0-7658-0733-5}}</ref>

Ultimately, Bazin received 14% of the vote, [[Jean-Bertrand Aristide]] winning the [[Haitian general election, 1990–1991]] with 67%.<ref>[http://www.umsl.edu/services/govdocs/wofact92/wf930107.txt CIA World Factbook 1992] {{webarchive|date=2 October 1999
|url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991002220707/http://www.umsl.edu/services/govdocs/wofact92/wf930107.txt}}</ref> After nine months, Aristide was deposed by a military coup. In June 1992, the army appointed Bazin as acting president. [[Federal government of the United States|Washington]]'s initial response was that he held the post illegally, but they soon warmed up to him and pressed Aristide to negotiate with the military and Bazin. With the change in administrations from Bush to [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]], the policy changed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/72477/love-and-haiti|title=Love and Haiti|accessdate=27 April 2024|via=The New Republic}}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ex-McfiTKWgC&pg=PA24 ''Plunging into Haiti: Clinton, Aristide, and the defeat of diplomacy''], Ralph Pezzullo, University Press of Mississippi, 2006, {{ISBN|978-1-57806-860-9}}</ref> He resigned on June 8, 1993.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&dat=19930609&id=BassAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1BQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2133,2912383|title=Star-News - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|accessdate=27 April 2024}}</ref>

Bazin was also a fervent political opponent of Aristide, and ran in the [[2006 Haitian general election|2006 election]] for the presidency of Haiti,<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/02/AR2006020201054.html Haiti Elections] Washington Post</ref> but was reported to have received only about [[2006 Haitian general election#Partial presidential results|0.68% of the vote]] in the 35-candidate race.

Bazin died of prostate cancer at his home in [[Pétion-Ville]], Port-au-Prince on 16 June 2010.

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100622054801/http://www.fenickjean.com/tag/marc-louis-bazin Marc Louis Bazin dead at 78]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100813175253/http://www.prevalhaiti.com/haiti-news-video.php/1162 Apres Duvalier Marc Bazin A St Marc]
* {{YouTube|fxvDCkeIP30|Marc Bazin-corruption et le regime de Duvalier}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110606053754/http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti-archive/msg11957.html Jacques Despinosse and Marc Bazin cohost town hall meeting]
* [http://www.isreview.org/issues/35/aristide.shtml "Aristide's Rise and Fall", ''International Socialist Review'', Issue 35, May–June 2004, ASHLEY SMITH]

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