Change of government in Haiti | Due to an insecurity …

The government of Haiti has tendered its resignation and the country has a new Prime Ministerthe president announced on Wednesday, Jovenel Moise (Photo), who added that the change is aimed at solving the severe security crisis facing this nation ravaged by poverty and corruption.

“The resignation of the government, which I accepted, will make it possible to tackle the glaring problem of insecurity and to continue discussions with a view to reaching the consensus necessary for the political and institutional stability of our country,” Moise tweeted. . “Tonight, I presented my resignation to the President of the Republic”, confirmed the outgoing Prime Minister for his part, Joseph jouthe.

Appointed in March 2020, Jouthe spent only one year in power, in a country where the succession of heads of government has accelerated in recent times. The new prime minister is Claude joseph, until now Minister of Foreign Affairs.

The Caribbean country, the poorest in the Americas, is experiencing an upsurge in insecurity, including kidnappings to extort money and extort money from gangs, which enjoy a high degree of impunity.

Jovenel Moise, at the center of a strong wave of opposition from the political opposition and a large part of the Haitian population, demanding his departure, He thus appoints his sixth prime minister in four years of government.

– Kidnappings and escapes –

Latest example of the drift of the country, the kidnapping on Sunday of ten people, including seven religious – five Haitians and two French – near Port-au-Prince. The Haitian Catholic Church denounced on Monday the lack of action by the authorities after the events. The seven religious are still in the hands of their captors.

Another sample of the danger of general anarchy Above this small country looms the escape in February of more than 400 inmates from a prison on the outskirts of the capital in which 25 people died, including the director of the center.

Claude Joseph replaces Joseph Jouthe as Prime Minister, who is also the President of the Superior Council of the National Police and that he has shown himself incapable, in a little over a year at the head of the government, of dealing with this worsening of insecurity.

The president, Jovenel Moise, believes that his term should end on February 7, 2022, while for the opposition and part of civil society, it has already ended on February 7, 2021.

The disagreement is due to the fact that Moise was elected in an election quashed for fraud and re-elected a year later. Without an active parliament, Haiti he plunged further into crisis in 2020 and the president reigns by decree, fueling growing mistrust of him. In this context of instability, Moise decided to hold a constitutional referendum in June, denounced as a hoax by the opposition.

End of March, the UN Security Council claims Haiti, in a unanimously approved declaration, that their electoral preparations “be made with a view to a free, balanced, transparent and credible presidential elections in 2021“.

Written by the United States, the declaration also underlines “the urgent need to hold free, balanced, transparent and credible legislative elections, which have been delayed since October 2019”.