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Haiti Premier Defends Decision to Resign
The prime minister of Haiti, whose abrupt resignation on Friday threw the country into political turmoil once again, said he knew his job was finished when he called cabinet ministers to a meeting a day earlier: None showed up.
Months of tension had been building between the prime minister, Garry Conille, a former United Nations bureaucrat who runs the day-to-day operations of government, and President Michel Martelly, a former Carnival singer who insists that he is in charge. Mr. Conille was his third choice for the job, backed by international donors eager to get rebuilding projects under way, after Parliament had rejected his other nominees.
“We simply reached an impasse,” Mr. Conille said in an interview on Saturday, speaking by phone from Port-au-Prince, the capital. He said it was his decision to leave, not Mr. Martelly’s, after it was clear that only four months into the job, the other ministers...
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The prime minister of Haiti, whose abrupt resignation on Friday threw the country into political turmoil once again, said he knew his job was finished when he called cabinet ministers to a meeting a day earlier: None showed up.
Months of tension had been building between the prime minister, Garry Conille, a former United Nations bureaucrat who runs the day-to-day operations of government, and President Michel Martelly, a former Carnival singer who insists that he is in charge. Mr. Conille was his third choice for the job, backed by international donors eager to get rebuilding projects under way, after Parliament had rejected his other nominees.
“We simply reached an impasse,” Mr. Conille said in an interview on Saturday, speaking by phone from Port-au-Prince, the capital. He said it was his decision to leave, not Mr. Martelly’s, after it was clear that only four months into the job, the other ministers...
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