Executive
Garry Conille Ratified as Prime Minister of the Republic of Haïti
- Tuesday, October 04, 2011 11:51 PM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - After more than 5 hours of debate, the Senate of the Republic of Haïti voted to ratify the 3rd Prime Minister choice of President Michel Martelly, Dr. Garry Conille.
Conille received, out of 30 senators, 17 yeas, 3 nays and 9 abstentions and will now succeed Jean-Max Bellerive as the Prime Minister of Haiti.
Many arguments were made throughout a debate that was passionate. Arguments ranged from technicalities such as Garry Conille not possessing a Haitian identification card to those as fundamental as the sovereignty of the nation of Haiti.
Dr. Garry Conille, a long time official of the United Nations also served as an aide to former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who is the United Nations Envoy to Haiti. Conille had not resided in Haiti for the five past years as the Constitution of Haiti requires and benefited from a political vote in the Haitian parliament.
President Michel Martelly and Prime Minister Garry Conille will now assemble a government of ministers and director generals to the nation's departments. The prime minister will assume the co-Chairmanship with Bill Clinton of the highly influential Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (CIRH); the commission tasked with rebuilding the country.
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