For the first time one elected president hands over the power to another elected THE UNIVERSAL
Sunday May 15, 2011 12:00 AM
Puerto Príncipe .- The singer Michel Martelly was sworn in as new president of Haiti, in a festive ceremony before some 2,000 guests held in a temporary building to the presidential palace ruins destroyed by a devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010. Martelly
was sworn in as president of the country and number 56 takes the place of René Préval as president, who could not contest elections for a new mandate for constitutional reasons, DPA said.
"I am a historic day," said Martelly After the ceremony, promising to do everything possible to reconcile the Haitian people, who asked to contribute to the rise of a new state.
For his inauguration was built a temporary wooden building to the Presidential Palace. Hundreds of volunteers cleaned the streets of downtown.
"For the first time in the history of Haiti a democratically elected president delivers the power to another democratically elected president also," said the outgoing head of UN mission in Haiti, MINUSTAH, Edmond Mulet.
Martelly With the assumption of 49, ending a political crisis for power, but the new president will to face major challenges such as rebuilding a country politically divided and destroyed by the earthquake that left over 220,000 dead.
Martelly, a populist right-wing government whose plans remain unclear, it came easily to the presidency despite his high popularity. Also, do not belong to the country's political elite.
Another issue that remains unclear is how to act in the indictment of former Haitian dictator Jean Claude Duvalier, who recently returned to the country after almost 25 years in exile, something that made contradictory statements.
http://opinion.eluniversal.com/2011/05/15/michel-martelly-emprende-el-reto-de-gobernar-haiti.shtml
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