privert's election? he was a member of the party that was in opposition to the former president martelly who appointed you. >> senator privert was someone i had the pleasure to work with for two and a half years. he was chairman of the finance committee on the senate. he holds great experience in the public administration and holds respect in the political circles in haiti and certainly we hope and every haitian hopes that he can carry out the mandate to organization the selection the runoff in 120 days. it's going to be a tough task but you know all the parties have now agreed that he is the right man to lead that transition. and we all hope that that is the case so that the country can move forward and have an elected president and elected congress so that we can stabilize the country and the country can move forward towards better days. >> there was a first round of the presidential election actually back in october and an independent investigation found that it was flawed in favor of president martel

haiti finally has a president at least for now, haitian lawmakers chose the senate's chief jocelerme privert to become the natio's provisional president. he will only be president of haiti for 120 days. >>> thousands of already lined up for what is expected to be the largest mass of the pope's visit to mexico. it will be held today in one of the poorest districtss of mexico city. nearly 300,00000eople are expected to attend and security will be tight. before heading back home the head of therussian orthodox church met with former cuban the private meeting took place yesterday. we're told they met at castro's home. they discussed the friendly relationship betwe russia and cuba as well as world affairs. this meeting comes just a day after the patriot held a historic meeting with pope francis at an airport terminal in havana. it was the first ever meeting between a roman catholic pope and a russian ortock patriarch. >>> south florida, pretty cool temperatures a wros much of the eastern seaboard and by cool i mean cold, waking up to temperatures in the low zero across much of new england. for us

former parliament head jocelerme privert served as interior minister under former president jean-bertrand aristide, who was ousted in 2004 in a u.s.-backed coup. and in other news from haiti, patrick elie, longtime pro-democracy activist and haiti's former secretary of state for public security under aristide, has died at the age of 66. in 2011, he spoke to democracy now! from port-au-prince on the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake. >> it is going to take time, but i do believe the earthquake is also a signal for us to build haitian democracy unsound foundation, which means the neighborhood committee, the grassroot organization, instead of trying to build a democracy from the top down, that is how we build our houses in port-au-prince and you saw what happened. amy: patrick elie died of internal bleeding at a hospital in port-au-prince on friday. he was 66. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. juan: welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. wit

haiti finally has a president at least for now, haitian lawmakers chose the senate's chief jocelerme privert to become the natio's provisional president. he will only be president of haiti for 120 days. >>> thousands of already lined up for what is expected to be the largest mass of the pope's