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Haiti Officials, Media Say PM Lapin Has Resigned

Reuters

   PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Haitian Prime Minister Jean Michel Lapin
   resigned on Monday, according to a high-ranking government official who
   asked not to be named, presenting a shakeup at the highest levels of
   government in the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation.

   President Jovenel Moïse also wrote in a post on Twitter that a new
   prime minister will be announced shortly, saying he had been in
   consultations with congressional leaders about the matter.

   Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste first reported on Monday that Lapin
   had offered his resignation to Moïse.

   "I have made a choice for Haiti," Lapin said in an interview with the
   newspaper.

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