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Weekly Report - 27 September 2018 (WR-18-38)

HAITI: New government takes shape

Two months after Haiti’s Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigned over the government’s mishandling of a rise in petrol prices [WR-18-28], his replacement has finally been installed. The bicameral legislature (comprising the 119-member chamber of deputies and 30-member senate) approved President Jovenel Moïse’s choice of Jean-Henry Céant, a 2016 presidential candidate for the opposition Renmen Ayiti party. However, the announcement – and Céant’s choice of a new cabinet in particular – has done little to assuage concerns regarding public corruption, which was also a major factor in the calls for Lafontant to step down.

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