As part of the process of designation of a new Prime Minister, the President Martelly met unofficially Simon Dieuseul Desras, the President of the Senate and evaillant Louis Jeune, President of the Lower House. During this informal meeting, the President mentioned 3 names: Laurent Lamothe, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Me Thierry Mayard-Paul, the Minister of the Interior and Anne Valérie Timothée Milfort member of the particular Cabinet of the Head of State and member of the Interim Commission for the Reconstruction of Haiti (IHRC).

It is likely that this approach of the Head of State with the Presidents of two chambers, aims to get a feeback to establish the profile acceptable by the Parliamentarians, of next Prime Minister-designate.

Following the meeting, Simon Dieuseul Desras wished to clarify in a statement "...I can not say that there is an official confirmation, we can only say, there are informal (unofficial) consultations. The official consultations is when the President calls the two Presidents of Chambers, according to the stipulations of the Constitution and that he communicates to us the names of people he has chosen.

For the moment, these are preliminary consultations, the President has expressed his intention from a list of people [...] at that time, our mission as President of the Chamber is to go in conference of Presidents or in Assembly of Senators and of the Chamber of deputies to inform the Assembly of the intentions of the President and, following the trend, perhaps that the feedback will enable the President to guide its final choice.

Officially we can not say that the President held consultations, unofficially yes [...] we talked about three names: the Minister of Foreign Affairs Laurent Lamothe, the Interior Minister Me Thierry Mayard Paul and Ms. Anne-Valérie Milfort [...] the President Martelly is not yet decided on a name [...]"

However, according to some sources, Laurent Lamothe did not show great interest in the position of Prime Minister...

S/ HaitiLibre