No Lavalas members in new Haitian Cabinet

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Neptune warns move will split the country
Observer and news services reports
Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Following a US-backed plan, Latortue met with political leaders to form a new transitional government that must be approved by interim president, Boniface Alexandre, who is the chief justice of Haiti's Supreme Court.

An official involved in the process said 11 of 13 ministers had been chosen and no one from Aristide's administration was among them. The official said the list included:

. Yvon Simeon as foreign minister;

. Bernard Gousse, an anti-Aristide lawyer, as justice minister;

. Henri Bazan, president of the Haitian Association of Economists, as finance minister; and

. former general, Herard Abraham, as interior minister.

Aristide's former prime minister, Yvon Neptune, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that ignoring the Lavalas Family party would further split the country.

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