RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Haitian Senate, with only one-third of its active members present, appointed Friday (9) its head, Joseph Lambert, as president of Haiti, in a frontal challenge to the legitimacy of the interim prime minister, Claude Joseph.
The Senate's decision aggravates the dispute for power in Haiti, given the vacuum opened by the assassination of President Jovenel Moise last Wednesday and the ambiguities posed by the Constitution in the succession mechanisms.
The resolution designated Lambert as interim president until February 7, the scheduled end of Moise's five-year term. It urged him to form . . .
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