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Weekly Report - 18 December 2014 (WR-14-50)

HAITI: Lamothe bows to pressure

Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe stepped down this week. The move was not entirely a surprise. His departure was one of the main recommendations of a report issued by a presidential advisory commission tasked with finding ways to end the current political crisis caused by the failure to hold long overdue legislative and municipal elections [WR-14-48]. With President Michel Martelly yet to name a successor to the post – traditionally a tricky one to fill in Haiti – and the legislature set to become inoperative as of 12 January the move could intensify the crisis rather than resolve it.

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