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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (0) Slideshow Video Full Focus Photos of the week Our top photos from the past week. Full Article Follow Reuters Aristide not on Haiti ballot but on voters' minds Tweet Share this By Pascal Fletcher PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - It looked just like a revved-up final election campaign rally, with crowds of fanatical supporters mobbing their candidate, chanting his praises and waving his portrait and Haitian flags. But the object... Email Print Related News Egyptians vote on reform 4:00pm EDT Aristide makes triumphant Haiti return before vote Fri, Mar 18 2011 RPT-Haiti's Aristide heads home before runoff vote Fri, Mar 18 2011 UPDATE 3-Aristide says he's returning home to Haiti Thu, Mar 17 2011 Aristide's expected return looms over Haiti election Thu, Mar 17 2011 Analysis & Opinion How Japan’s nuclear industry got here Obama, guns and media control Related Topics World » Natural Disasters » Related Video Aristide gets hero’s welcome in Haiti 6:50am EDT 1 / 7 A picture of Haiti's former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide hangs from wires outside a home in Port-au-Prince March 19, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton By Pascal Fletcher PORT-AU-PRINCE | Sat Mar 19, 2011 12:46pm EDT PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - It looked just like a revved-up final election campaign rally, with crowds of fanatical supporters mobbing their candidate, chanting his praises and waving his portrait and Haitian flags. But the object of their adulation, Haiti's former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is not on the ballot for Sunday's two-horse run-off to elect a leader for one of the world's poorest states, struggling to recover from a 2010 earthquake. Aristide's tumultuous homecoming from exile on Friday, however, commanded world attention and flew in the face of U.S. and U.N. urging that a figure Washington sees as divisive should not have returned before the vote. It thrust the 57-year-old left-wing populist, who was ousted by a 2004 rebellion in his second term, back onto the Haitian political stage and into the minds of voters. The thousands who gave him a hero's welcome, sidelining the campaigns of the two actual candidates, still see him as the best hope to bring "peace in the head, peace in the belly" -- his old slogan -- to Haiti's long-suffering 10 million people. "I'm happy to see him back, because things will change in the country, he'll create jobs," said Port-au-Prince voter Therese Severe, 60, even as she acknowledged he would not be part of the choice in Sunday's election. The two candidates on the ballot, former first lady Mirlande Manigat, 70, and singer Michel Martelly, 50, have scrambled to adapt their campaign discourses to accommodate this unexpected returnee from Haiti's turbulent political past. Not wishing to alienate potential voters from Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas party, Haiti's biggest, which has been unable to register a candidate of its own in the absence of its historic leader, they have loudly upheld his right to return home. "I can't stop him, nobody can stop him ... his presence, which is not an ordinary presence, may cause some agitation ... but he's welcome," said law professor Manigat, whom recent opinion polls show trailing her younger rival Martelly. It is thought Aristide, who was given a diplomatic passport by the outgoing Haitian government, cannot vote on Sunday. Some aides say he will stay out of politics but there still has been speculation he might throw his influence, and the votes of his Fanmi Lavalas followers, behind one or other of the candidates, who are seen as politically right of center. "We don't know what his political intentions or motivations are, but what we know is that he has never, ever endorsed anyone in the past," the top U.N. official in Haiti, Edmond Mulet, told Reuters. A FUTURE CONTENDER? Aristide was resting at his refurbished home in Port-au-Prince on Saturday. It was jammed with jubilant supporters on Friday who climbed trees and walls to see him. Mulet expressed relief that in Aristide's first comments after returning from seven years exile in South Africa, he said more about his emotions than his political ambitions, although he did refer to the "exclusion" of his Fanmi Lavalas party. 1 2 Next World Natural Disasters Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above. 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