Garry Conille: Cabinet had lost confidence in me

Former Haiti Prime Minister, Garry Conille. PHOTO/File

Garry Conille, whose abrupt resignation as Haiti prime minister on Friday, threw the country into political turmoil once again, said he knew his job was finished when he called cabinet ministers to a meeting a day earlier: None showed up.

Months of tension had been building between the prime minister, Garry Conille, a former United Nations bureaucrat who runs the day-to-day operations of government, and President Michel Martelly, a former musician who insists that he is in charge. Mr. Conille was his third choice for the job, backed by international donors eager to get rebuilding projects under way, after Parliament had rejected his other nominees.

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