The 120-Day President: Haiti’s Power Struggle (Dispatch 4)

Haiti’s National Assembly selected Jocelerme Privert as the country’s interim president on Sunday in a move aimed at filling a power vacuum threatening stability in the Caribbean nation, seven days after the departure of Michel Martelly. Martelly ended his five-year presidential term on February 7 without a successor, and this the first time in 70 years that Haiti’s parliament has chosen the country’s leader. This weekend’s marathon legislative session was 12 hours long and involved two rounds of voting,