Haiti: Fritz Bélizaire appointed Prime Minister

Haiti’s newly installed transitional council chose a little-known former sports minister as the Caribbean country’s prime minister Tuesday as part of its monumental task of trying to establish a stable new government amid stifling violence.

Fritz Bélizaire was chosen in a surprise move to replace current interim Prime Minister Michel Patrick Boisvert, gaining the support of four of the seven voting members on the nine-member panel but with other panel members saying they were unfamiliar with Bélizaire.

Bélizaire himself was not present at the announcement.

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