Haiti: Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph leaves office

The Haitian Interim Prime Minister of Haiti, Claude Joseph, speaks during a press conference in Port-au-Prince on July 11, 2021. AFP - VALERIE BAERISWYL

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In Haiti, Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph has announced that he is stepping down.

It was an expected decision and in recent days the pressure has been increasing so that this close to President Jovenel Moïse, assassinated on July 7, leaves the reins of the country to Ariel Henry, who had been appointed to this post. two days before the death of the Haitian president.

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He confirmed this in an interview with the American daily 

Washington Post

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Claude Joseph made the decision to leave his post of Prime Minister this Sunday, July 18, the day after a press release from the CORE Group, a group made up of ambassadors from different countries: Americans and French among others, but also those of the European Union and OAS, the organization of American states.

In this press release, this group called on the Prime Minister designate Ariel Henry, chosen by Jovenel Moïse before he was assassinated, to continue the mission entrusted to him to form a consensual and inclusive government.

It must be said that Claude Joseph no longer seemed to be the ideal interlocutor to put an end to the political crisis in Haiti.

If in the hours following the assassination of Jovenel Moïse, he was in constant contact with the US State Department, over the days, the international community seems to have turned its jacket over.

Claude Joseph was even for a short time cited in the conspiracy that allegedly led to the assassination of the Haitian president by the Colombian press.

Now a new government must be formed by Ariel Henry.

A government in which Claude Joseph should return to his post as Minister of Foreign Affairs. 

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