PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s President-elect Michel Martelly has a popular mandate and U.S. support to rebuild his earthquake-ravaged nation but he will have to win over an opposition-dominated parliament to back his policies, politicians and analysts said yesterday.
Political cohabitation remains a major governance challenge in this impoverished country with a history of coups, corruption and fractured politics, and an uncooperative or divided parliament has stymied Haitian rulers in the past.
Definitive results from last month’s presidential run-off in the Caribbean nation confirmed the former pop star’s already announced victory