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Weekly Report - 8 March 2012 (WR-12-10)
HAITI: Dangerous power play in Port-au-Prince
President Michel Martelly is conditioning the staging of senate elections, already delayed, on the approval by Haiti’s parliamentarians of his choice for prime minister. This is both bold and brash. The elections are a constitutional requirement; Martelly has no control, under the constitution, over how long parliament takes to approve his nominee for prime minister. Haiti looks set foul for weeks, if not months, of political instability, just as there are growing signs that the violence that the UN stabilisation mission (Minustah) had managed to reduce over the course of the last eight years is on the rise once again.
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