PM SPOKESMAN DENIES ANY PLOT TO OVERTHROW PRESIDENT
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PORT-AU-PRINCE – The Spokesman for the Prime Minister’s Office, Gary Bodeau, denied that the meeting at the private residence of Prime Minister Garry Conille had deteriorated into a tirade by President Michel Martelly. The spokesman was not able to give reporters details.
Bodeau said the meeting remained amicable when President Michel Martelly arrived and when he left. The spokesman says that the president came to the prime minister’s residence because of a pressing matter of state business that he wanted to discuss with his Head of Government.
”Harmonious” is how Gary Bodeau described the conversations. Bodeau says upon coming across parliamentarians at the residence of the prime minister, the president said, “gentleman, since you are here, let us sit down and discuss the great matters of the state.”
Bodeau says when the meeting ended the prime minister and the parliamentarians escorted the president to his vehicle and that there was nothing more that occurred.
Asked by a reporter what exactly was the matter that the president wanted to discuss, Bodeau could not give an answer, but said that it was one of the great matters that the nation is facing. Bodeau says that a retreat between the members of the executive, and the legislative had been planned during the encounter.
Bodeau says that there was not, at all, a matter of a coup d’etat on the table.
More reports from persons present at the meeting conflict with the account given by Gary Bodeau. According to those reports, an uninvited President Michel Martelly interrupted a meeting at the private residence of Prime Minister Garry Conille as he was meeting with members of the majority block, G-16, of the senate and the majority bloc, GPR, of the lower house.
It is said that the Head of State entered with a vitriolic castigation of government officials and accusing them of conspiring a Coup d'Etat.
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