Haiti´s Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe announced his resignation early morning yesterday, following repeated calls for him to step down amid anti-government protests and a political crisis in the impoverished Caribbean nation.
Lamothe´s resignation had been widely expected after President Michel Martelly said Friday that the prime minister was ready to leave “to help find a solution” to the country´s political impasse that has seen a failure to hold parliamentary elections in the last three years.
“If this is what can really unblock the political crisis, I decided tonight to give President Martelly my resignation as head of government, along with the resignation of all ministers,” Lamothe said during a televised speech broadcast in Creole.
“I am leaving the post of prime minister this evening with a feeling of accomplishment,” Lamothe said in the address, as tweeted by Haiti´s communication ministry from its official account.
