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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Aug 06, 2015
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• Category : Haiti News
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  Associated Press By EVENS SANON
  August 5, 2015 5:24 PM
  
  Photo: FILE - In this June 10, 2015 file photo, Haiti's President Michel Joseph Martelly waits for the start of a round table...
• Location : Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti
• Website : http://news.yahoo.com/officials-exit-haiti-govt-over-presidents-remarks-woman-192320077.html

Overview

• PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A hostile comment made by Haitian President Michel Martelly at a campaign rally has set off an uproar in his coalition government, leading a politically allied party to announce the resignation of three officials from his administration Wednesday.
  
  The leader of the Fusion Social Democrats told reporters that two Cabinet ministers and a secretary of state will leave Martelly's government due to the president's comments to a woman in the port city of Miragoane.
  
  "This is inappropriate. Enough is enough," Edmonde Supplice Beauzile said at a news conference announcing his party's vote to remove its three officials, which include the minister of women's affairs.
  
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