In Haiti, election authorities have released the names of nineteen candidates who have qualified to run in the upcoming presidential election. Candidates include former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune, who was held as a political prisoner for two years following the 2004 coup that ousted Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Fifteen candidates were rejected, including the hip-hop singer Wyclef Jean, who said he plans to fight the ruling. Jean did not meet the requirement that presidential candidates have five consecutive years of residency in Haiti prior to the election.