Ja: Guy Philippe for President?

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A leader in the revolt that ousted former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has transformed his rebel army into a political party that plans to campaign in next year's general elections, officials said yesterday.

Guy Philippe's new party is called the Front for National Reconstruction and it aims to improve education and health care, spokesman Decoste Jeudy said.

Philippe, a former police chief in northern Haiti, helped launch the three-week rebellion that forced Aristide to flee the country on February 29. He has hinted that he may run for president in elections that interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue has promised by 2005.

Philippe announced the formation of the new party on Tuesday in Gonaives