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- Bellerive to start shaping new Haitian government
Bellerive to start shaping new Haitian government
Fernando Sánchez
Friday, Nov. 13
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti - After receiving the approval of both parliamentary houses, Haiti's new Prime Minister, Jean Max Bellerive, was given the go-ahead to form a new government by President René Préval on Nov. 11. Bellerive replaces Michèlle Pierre-Louis, who was fired on Oct. 30 due to her allegedly poor performance after heading the government for 13 months.
Bellerive, Haiti's sixth prime minister since 2004, reported Terra, pledged to attract foreign investment, create jobs and forge stronger ties with Congress after two of his predecessors were ousted by parliamentary decisions. During the swearing-in, Bellerive asked his cabinet to provide "appropriate responses to the recurring problems affecting the majority of Haitians." The new cabinet features 18 ministers, 11 of whom had worked with Pierre-Louis.
In the run-up to an intense electoral year, political analysts consulted by EFE pointed out that Préval's decision to fire Pierre-Louis was part of an attempt to retain political control by appointing close allies to key positions in a move to influence the 2010 elections.
Bellerive's first decision was to call legislative elections for Feb. 28, 2010 that would renew the Chamber of Deputies and one third of the Senate.
On the social front, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (Minustah) reported that kidnappings had diminished but cases of lynching were increasing. The Brazilian commander of the UN forces in Haiti, Gen. Floriano Peixoto Vieira Neto, told Reuters that the situation was "extremely fragile" and there was no timeline for the withdrawal of troops. In October, the UN Security Council extended the peacekeeping mission's term for another year.
Haiti ranks 149 out of 182 nations on the U.N. Human Development Index and is the poorest country in the hemisphere. Seventy percent of the population, according to BBC Mundo, live on less than US$2 a day. The country was devastated by four hurricanes and tropical storms in 2008 that killed hundreds of people, destroyed crops and damaged infrastructure. In April, several nations pledged to donate US$324 million toward reconstruction.
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