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reduce Haiti's economic dependence and halted the privatization process. But then IMF held back loans, sparking a political crisis. Rene Preval was elected president with 88 per cent of the vote. It was the first peaceful change of president since Haiti became independent. Preval was an ally of
Aristide and would have liked Claudette Werleigh to continue as prime minister. But the majority in parliament, which needed to approve the prime minister, had changed, so Werleigh withdrew and left the country.
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Preval's private cabinet in 1991 and was engaged in the
Lavalas movement in support of the president. From July 1992 to October 1993, she was the executive director of the Washington office on Haiti, doing advocacy and lobbying. In 1993–1995 she was Minister of Foreign Affairs and Religions in the Malval and Michel governments. She then served as prime minister for a hundred days in 1995–1996. Her task was to strengthen the leadership of the country and organize democratic presidential elections.
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In 1968-70 Werleigh worked as a medical technician and chemist in the US, in 1971-73 as a physiologist in
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