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Weekly Report - 02 March 2017 (WR-17-08)

HAITI: Political unknown tapped for PM

Haiti’s new president Jovenel Moïse last week officially presented Dr Jack Guy Lafontant, a gastroenterologist and reportedly a close personal friend, as his choice for prime minister. Like Moïse (himself a political neophyte, handpicked by former president Michel Martelly [2011-2016] as his successor), Lafontant lacks political experience and his appointment appeared to take the establishment by surprise. Doubts persist as to whether the national legislature, in which the ruling Parti Haïtien Tèt Kale (PHTK) has a majority, will approve Lafontant’s political programme – the next stage of the process of installing a new government.

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