Haiti needs to hold both legislative and presidential elections soon for a legitimate governmentThe brazen assassination of Jovenel Moïse, the 53-year-old President of Haiti, has pushed the impoverished Caribbean country battered by political and economic crises into more chaos. Haitian police say 28 foreign mercenaries, including retired Colombian soldiers, killed the President at his residence in Port-au-Prince early Wednesday. Moïse was at the centre of a political crisis that had shaken the country in recent months. Moïse came to power promising to strengthen Haiti’s institutions, fix its economy, fight corruption and stabilise governance. And Haitian leaders should not allow the vacuum left by Moïse’s assassination to destabilise the country further.

Source: The Hindu July 09, 2021 18:32 UTC