Haiti's prime minister has resigned, after violent anti-government protests over delayed elections.
"I am leaving the post of prime minister this evening with a feeling of accomplishment," Laurent Lamothe said in a televised address.
Protesters had called for President Michel Martelly and Mr Lamothe to resign.
Mr Martelly was to have called polls in 2011, but they were postponed in a stalemate over electoral law.
Opposition politicians accuse President Martelly of wanting to rule by decree and that legislation that would authorise the vote unfairly favours the government.
The government argues that opposition politicians are dragging their feet in the hope of extending their time in office without elections.
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