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LatinNews Daily - 29 May 2024

In brief: New prime minister named in Haiti

*Haiti’s new nine-member transitional presidential council (TPC) has named Garry Conille, a former prime minister (2011-2012), to reprise his previous role. This is the TPC’s second attempt at naming a prime minister after its previous 30 April appointment of Fritz Bélizaire, a former youth and sports minister during the second presidency of René Préval (1996-2001, 2006-2011), threatened a crisis for the newly established council which is tasked with steering the country towards elections which have not taken place since 2016. A former aide (2010-2011) to then United Nations (UN) special envoy to Haiti, former US President Bill Clinton (1993-2001), Conille served briefly as prime minister from October 2011 to February 2012 under former president Michel Martelly (2011-2016), resigning over differences with the then president. Conille was serving as UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the time of his appointment. TPC member Louis Gérald Gilles told the Associated Press that six out of seven council members with voting power chose Conille. He said one member, Laurent Saint-Cyr, was not in Haiti and therefore did not vote. The other four main candidates were widely reported as being: Bélizaire; former interior minister (2006-2011) Paul Antoine Bien-Aimé; former defence minister (2012-2014) and senate president (2011-2012) Jean Rodolphe Joazile; and Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, a businessman who in 2015 ran unsuccessfully for the senate.

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