{"id":96185,"date":"2017-02-24T09:07:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T13:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=96185"},"modified":"2017-02-24T09:07:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T13:07:10","slug":"haiti-prime-minister-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/02\/24\/haiti-prime-minister-named\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiti prime minister named"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_96166\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96166\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-96166 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Guy-Lafontant-300x247.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-96166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Jack Guy Lafontant \/ Haiti Libre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Newly elected Haiti President Jovenel Moise has named gastroenterologist Jack Guy Lafontant his Prime Minister. Lafontant, 56, is a professor at the State University of Haiti (UEH) and the University of Notre Dame of Haiti (UNDH). He replaces Enex Jean-Charles who resigned to allow the new head of state to consult with legislators for his successor, as stipulated in the Constitution of Haiti. As reported, he is a member of the American College of Gastroenterology and not a well-known political figure, but rather is a personal friend of the new head of government.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment needs to be confirmed by the Haitian congress. Lafontant next would need to work to structure the government.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.haitilibre.com\/en\/news-20176-haiti-flash-jovenel-moise-chosen-dr-jack-guy-lafontant-as-prime-minister.html\" target=\"_blank\">Haiti Libre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>24 February 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly elected Haiti President Jovenel Moise has named gastroenterologist Jack Guy Lafontant his Prime Minister. Lafontant, 56, is a professor at the State University of Haiti (UEH) and the University of Notre Dame of Haiti (UNDH). He replaces Enex Jean-Charles who resigned to allow the new head of state to consult with legislators for his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/02\/24\/haiti-prime-minister-named\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}