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Haiti Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant had faced widespread criticism even before deadly unrest sparked by a now-abandoned plan to raise fuel prices. [AFP]
Embattled Haiti Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigned on Saturday following deadly violence and looting sparked by a now-abandoned plan to raise fuel prices, triggering a fraught process to form a new government.
"I submitted my resignation to the president of the republic," who has "accepted my resignation," Lafontant said in the lower house of Haiti's legislature.
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