Port-Au-Prince, February 15 (RHC)-- Haitian lawmakers have chosen an opposition senator to serve as interim president for 120 days after disputed elections left the country without a president.
Former Parliament head Jocelerme Privert served as interior minister under former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was ousted in 2004 in a U.S.-backed coup.
And in other news from Haiti, Patrick Elie, longtime pro-democracy activist and Haiti’s former secretary of state for public security under Aristide died of internal bleeding at a hospital in Port-Au-Prince at the age of 66.