Dear Sir:

While some would continue to allow Haiti to remain as a country without a constitutionally functioning government, I cannot disagree more. After years of bowing to pressure of external forces, including monetary and political institutions, Haiti has become a country overly privatised and therefore unable to meet the rights of its citizens.

Simply out of the needs of the Haitian people to have a functioning government, the Haitian Parliment must certify the nomination of Michele Pierre-Louis to the post of Prime Minister.

Madam Pierre-Louis brings a rich background to the position, including first-hand experience with education and literacy at FOKAL, and support of the public sector through the Open Society Institute.
Madam Pierre-Louis has the needs of the majority at heart, not the needs of the elite. Some dubious debasements of George Soros might try to paint Madam Pierre-Louis as a threat to Caribbean values, but these arguments are as logically shallow as they are rhetorically weak. And the use of such ties to Mr Soros only show that Madam Pierre-Louis's detractors must target her associates because they have no negative material of truth to accuse her with directly.

As someone who currently resides in Haiti, and does not write from Atlanta, GA, in America, I can say that Haiti already has "societal ills" much greater than the US or Europe. If a child starves to death, the society is ill. If a patient dies from a treatable disease, the society is ill. And if a human being grows up illiterate in a world based on literacy, then a society is ill. Haiti allready has "societal ills" and Madam Pierre-Louis is our doctor on call.

Graham Sowa
Cazale, Haiti, WI