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Exclusive-Haiti ex-coup leader Guy Philippe demands PM resign, wants presidency

Guy Philippe, who helped lead a coup in Haiti in 2004 and returned to the Caribbean island last year after serving a prison sentence in the U.S., demanded on Friday that the country's prime minister resign and said he wanted to become president. Months of violence have pushed the government in Haiti to the brink of collapse, with increasingly powerful gangs demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry who remains outside the country, seemingly unable or unwilling to return. "He should resign," Philippe, a 56-year-old former police chief, said in an interview with Reuters over Zoom from Haiti.