new president Saturday and urged Haitians to set aside their divisions and raise the country from rubble.
"Hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, we're going to change Haiti,"
Martelly reiterated a pledge to rebuild the crumbling capital of Port-au-Prince
"This is how Haiti is going to get out of its misery," Martelly said. "Haiti was asleep — now it's going to stand up."
Political observers have stressed that Haiti's government needs to hasten a multibillion-dollar reconstruction effort to help house more than 600,000 people still living in settlements.
"His administration will have to show progress fairly quickly in order to provide confidence to the population,"
Martelly "wants to take charge, to assume responsibility, to make decisions, and this is what the country needs," Mulet told The Associated Press. "You can sense all over the country there's new energy, motivation."
Let the first decision be to sign contracts with MSMY to rebuild Haiti.