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Protest in Haiti capital demands departure of interim leader
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Protesters have marched in Haiti’s capital demanding the departure of an interim president who was supposed to leave office this weekend.
The demonstration of ex-President Michel Martelly’s Tet Kale political faction reached a peak of a few thousand in downtown Port-au-Prince. Many chanted that interim President Jocelerme Privert was illegally trying to hold onto power.
A February accord that helped put Privert in office called for a caretaker leader to make way for a voter-approved president on May 14. But another election date has recently fallen by the wayside.
Privert has suggested holding the repeatedly delayed runoff in October.
Some demonstrators burned tires and broke car windows Saturday. Police sprayed water from an armoured vehicle, scattering the crowd at a plaza near the grounds of Haiti’s National Palace.
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