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- NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
- NEWS_POSTED_ON: Jan 02, 2015
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- Category : Haiti News
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Description :
Haitian President Michel Martelly has named veteran politician Evans Paul, pictured during presidential election campaign in 2005, as prime minister to lead a new government (AFP Photo/Thony Belizaire)
- Location : Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti
- Website : http://haitiantimes.com
Overview
Port-au-Prince (AFP) – Haitian President Michel Martelly named veteran politician Evans Paul prime minister to lead a new government, as he seeks to defuse a crisis over long-delayed elections.
Thursday’s announcement followed the resignation of Laurent Lamothe from the post earlier this month in the face of repeated calls for him to quit over the failure to hold legislative elections for the past three years.
Lamothe’s decision had threatened to plunge the poorest country in the Americas into political chaos once again.Martelly named Paul as a replacement by presidential decree while awaiting ratification by both chambers of the legislature “in order to form a new government,” his office said in a statement.