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Yvon Neptune was appointed Prime Minister on March 4, 2002, but following the overthrow of the government in February 2004, he was replaced by an interim Prime Minister, Gérard Latortue.

The constitutional Prime Minister, Yvon Neptune languished in jail for over a year, accused of complicity in an alleged massacre in Saint-Marc.

United Nations officials, expressing scepticism towards the evidence, called for either due process or his release.

Having entered custody in June 2004, Neptune was formally charged on September 20, 2005, but was never sent to trial.

He was finally released on 28 July 2006.

The last Prime Minister, Jacques-Édouard Alexis, entered office in 2006 and was removed in April 2008.

Michèle Pierre-Louis received approval to become the next Prime Minister from both houses in July.