By The Associated Press TRENTON DANIEL
PORT AU PRINCE - Haiti's new president wants a leader business as its prime minister said on Sunday a government official.
The official announcement that President Michel Martelly Daniel Gerard Rouzier want to have the second over the country came one day after Martelly, a charismatic pop star known as "Sweet Micky", was sworn in as the new president of Haiti in a row in an impromptu ceremony Parliament and the National Palace garden collapsed in a catastrophic last year's earthquake.
Parliament must ratify Rouzier in office.
Also Sunday, an adviser to the current prime minister, Jean-Max Bellerive, Bellerive said he had resigned to make room for his successor.
Bellerive, who also co-chairs the committee for the reconstruction of Haiti with former U.S. president Bill Clinton will remain in office until the new prime minister is ratified, told The Associated Press his special advisor, Alice Blanchet.
The new prime minister also will co-chair of the Interim Commission for the Recovery of Haiti, whose mandate expires in October. The agency has been criticized for not doing enough to accommodate and assist the victims of the earthquake in January 2010 that caused 300,000 deaths and two million displaced.
The chief of staff Martelly, Thierry Mayard-Paul, said Sunday that the new president chose Rouzier as prime minister because of his background as a renowned entrepreneur.
Rouzier, Martelly adviser, is general manager of Sun Auto, a car dealership company, and president of E-Power, a power company. It is also linked to Food for the Poor, a charity based in the U.S. city of Coconut Creek in the state of Florida.
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