Haiti ex-coup leader demands PM resign, seeks presidency • FRANCE 24 English

Haiti ex-coup leader demands PM resign, seeks presidency • FRANCE 24 English

He successfully led a coup in Haiti two decades ago and now former police chief GE Philip is threatening to seize power once again prime minister arel has been in Puerto Rico for days now and seems unable to return to Haiti Philipe says he shouldn’t come back he had an

Agreement he would resign and step down in February 7th this year but he hasn’t done it and still is still having the backing of those big countries that say that they are our so I think he should stay where he is now for the for the for the best it will

Be good for the country that he stay where he is and let hatian decide their faith Philip has had a tumultuous political career in 2016 he won a senate seat but was arrested and extradited to the United States before he could be sworn in he’s been back in Haiti since

Last November after being deported from the US where he served a six-year jail sentence for money laundering derived from drug trafficking his threats to take over CS as Haiti grapples with a wave of gang violence and an aiing economy on Thursday authorities extended a state of emergency around the capital

PTO prance that after armed groups broke thousands of inmates out of prison days earlier the chaos has forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes in recent years some say it’s made life impossible recently a tear gas grenade was thrown by the police and hit a journalist in the eye

The police kill students and they kill activists today they’re questioning activists we have a prime minister we don’t know whether he’s dead or alive because he’s lost in the wild prime minister Ariel HRI has accepted to hold early elections in 2025 but gangs have stepped up their

Attacks on security forces pushing for a quicker transition

Guy Philippe, who helped lead a coup in Haiti in 2004 and returned to the Caribbean island last year after serving a prison sentence in the US, demanded on Friday that the country’s prime minister resign and said he wanted to become president. Months of violence have pushed the government in Haiti to the brink of collapse, with increasingly powerful gangs demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry who remains outside the country, seemingly unable or unwilling to return.
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