Weekly Report - 19 June 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)

President René Préval faces his toughest challenge since taking office in May 2006 after the lower chamber of parliament rejected his second nomination for prime minister, Robert Manuel, last week as emphatically as it had his first, Ericq Pierre, one month earlier. Préval is under pressure to set up a new government under a new prime minister fast. The protesters that organised the food riots that brought down Jacques Edouard Alexis two months ago are getting restless again.