(CNN) - it was just before Christmas when Michel Martelly cooked over the events in his troubled land and found that everything had been done to ensure the loss for him in the polls.
A simple election fraud had ousted him the race. Key Haiti Martelly dreams were all dead. But four months of recounts, reviews, and a runoff change everything and the unexpected candidate is now poised to move in the Presidential Office.
Unexpected because Martelly has never been a politician. He is best known as the "sweet Mickey", a singer popular kompa fascinated his fans with a bad boy antics on stage. He cursed and gleaming with a bottle of rum Barbancourt between its hands and on his audience.
This is an image which Martelly said that he cultivated for the stage. Still, he led many to question if he was fit to run a that beleaguered nation like Haiti. Already the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti is reeling from the devastation caused by the earthquake of last year's mass followed by a cholera epidemic later in the year.
A lack of progress prompted Haitians to vote against the candidate supported by the Government. Martelly, they said, was a new face in the policy, the corruption that stole many a Presidency in Haiti.
"Haitians, particularly the legions of young people and the unemployed, # Martelly is an outsider who can make changes to # Haiti," long-time observer Haiti Jocelyn McCalla said on Twitter.
Victory of the Martelly is a continuation of a signal of the Haitian people have been sending some time, said Gary Stone, editor in Chief and publisher of The Haitian Times New York-based newspaper.
"They do not want the creation." They want the status quo. ?
In the streets of Port - au-Prince, thousands turned singing one of his most popular nicknames: "Tet Kale," which means bald head in Creole. Haitians, especially the young, starving for a new face. And they got on Monday when the Electoral Council announced preliminary results.
Martelly won by a landslide with 67.6% of the vote, severely beat his challenger, former first lady Mirlande Manigat, which received 31.5%.
The runoff vote came after weeks of control of the November election which resulted in the overthrow of the candidate supported by the Government, Jude Celestin. This is exactly what Martelly had hoped in December, when he founded CNN for its plan to lift Haiti out of its misery.
Martelly appeared in jeans and a unisex shirt at his home in Peguyville, a suburb of up top of Port - au-Prince in the hills of plush. A silver arm cuff hugged his right wrist and it taste hard on his favorite ice - cream soda. He was sitting at a table surrounded by a piano and eight wall speakers. It was not difficult to say that it was home of the musician.
Haiti, he said then, was on the verge of the revolution.
"It is a very dangerous corner in the history of Haiti," he said. "But this is a revolution that may be made peacefully through the election."
Under the dictatorship of Duvalier father and son, Haitians had no freedom, but the people had own roads, electricity, jobs, security, Martelly, said. When democracy came the day after this Caribbean nation, people did not know how to manipulate.
Martelly speaks of 24 years of time, a poor country which said, rué backward in poverty even more troubled.
He said "We're governed by corruption,". "People have no confidence in their Government."
Then came the political agitation with a presidential election in disarray.
He said "you know how (President of United States, Barack) Obama said he is not human, but it is on the plan?". "". It is here more on the human plan. ?
Haiti going nowhere, he said, unless people have a President, they can rely, a President who is honest. He was the man, he has insisted.
"I was on the ground with them for 22 years." People know me. I represents the light at the end of the tunnel. ?
But the man also had plans.
For example, he said that the $ 12 billion promised by the international community to help earthquake should come in the form of infrastructure, no money, because Haitians do not know how to manage money.
"People are fed here", he said. "They have no food, no education, no health care.". Is what kind of place when a girl will sell his body to buy a phone card? ?
So, what makes a man who has made a name with dance music thinks that he can make a difference in Haiti?
Martelly flashed his signature smile. light glinted off the tet kale.
"Well", he said. "Look at what the politicians have done."
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