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Weekly Report - 22 January 2015 (WR-15-03)

HAITI: ‘Consensus cabinet’ fails to convince

With the opposition-dominated legislature now dissolved, President Michel Martelly has sworn in Evans Paul as his new prime minister along with a new cabinet. One of the legislature’s final acts was to reject Paul – a controversial figure in Haitian politics. Martelly’s claims of setting up a “consensus government” are ringing hollow: Paul is already on dubious ground constitutionally (the 1987 constitution stipulates that the prime minister must be ratified by both houses of parliament); and opposition parties reject the cabinet changes as “cosmetic”.

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