Christian Movement for a New Haiti

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| name = Christian Movement for a New Haiti

| native_name = Mouvement Chrétien pour une Nouvelle Haïti

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| leader1_title = President

| leader1_name = Luc Mesadieu

| foundation = 1991

| headquarters = Port-au-Prince

| ideology = Christian democracy

| position = Centre to centre-right

| international =

| seats1_title = Chamber of Deputies

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| seats2_title = Senate

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| country = Haiti

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The Christian Movement for a New Haiti (Mouvement Chrétien pour une Nouvelle Haïti, Mochrenha) is a political party in Haiti.

History

The party was founded in 1991 by Evangelical Protestant churches.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yNGfBwAAQBAJ&q=political+handbook+haiti+mopod&pg=PT2571 |title=Political Handbook of the World 2015 |first=Tom |last=Landsford |date=2014|isbn=9781483371559 }} 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.{{cite web |url= http://www.haiticulture.ch/haiti_partis_politiques.html |title= Partis Politiques Enregistrés et Reconnus |publisher= HaitiCulture.ch |language= French |access-date= 2015-06-14 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141011064032/http://www.haiticulture.ch/haiti_partis_politiques.html |archive-date= 2014-10-11 |url-status= dead }}

The party gained three seats in the Chamber of Deputies at the 2000 elections. 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 three 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.

For the 2015 presidential election, Renold Jean Claude Bazin was presented as the party's candidate.{{cite web |url=http://lenouvelliste.com/lenouvelliste/article/145158/La-liste-complete-des-candidats-a-la-presidence |title=La liste complète des candidats à la présidence |date=May 22, 2015 |work=Le Nouvelliste |access-date=June 14, 2015 |archive-date=May 27, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527022838/http://lenouvelliste.com/lenouvelliste/article/145158/La-liste-complete-des-candidats-a-la-presidence |url-status=dead }} For the 2015 parliamentary elections, the party presented three candidates for the Senate and 19 for the Chamber of Deputies.[http://lenouvelliste.com/uploads/senateursacceptes.pdf Accepted candidates for senator] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150615163153/http://lenouvelliste.com/uploads/senateursacceptes.pdf |date=2015-06-15 }}[http://www.cephaiti.ht/files/Doc_off/Senateurs_repeches.pdf Accepted candidates for senator] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530005115/http://www.cephaiti.ht/files/Doc_off/Senateurs_repeches.pdf |date=2015-05-30 }}[http://lenouvelliste.com/uploads/deputesacceptes.pdf Accepted candidates for deputy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150615172143/http://lenouvelliste.com/uploads/deputesacceptes.pdf |date=2015-06-15 }}[http://www.cephaiti.ht/files/Doc_off/Deputes_repeches.pdf Accepted candidates for deputy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150616085208/http://www.cephaiti.ht/files/Doc_off/Deputes_repeches.pdf |date=2015-06-16 }}

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