Weekly Report - 14 July 2011 (WR-11-28)

Two months into his term, Haiti’s new President Michel Martelly appears to be in no hurry to form a government. Martelly has yet to display any indication of the professed need for “political reconciliation” which he pronounced a priority upon winning election in March. If he raised some eyebrows with his first choice of prime minister, Daniel Rouzier, a businessman with alleged links to the past Duvalier regimes (1957-86) whose rejection by the opposition-controlled legislature came as little surprise, Martelly’s second choice of Bernard Gousse, a lawyer and former justice minister, is even more perplexing.

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