PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Jean-Max Bellerive on Saturday cleared his final legislative hurdle to become Prime Minister when the Lower House of Parliament ratified him to fill the vacant post.

After the Senate voted unanimously on Friday to confirm the economist, the Chamber of Deputies, as the Lower House is called, put its stamp of approval on Saturday, voting 52-2 in giving him the nod to become Prime Minister of this Caribbean Community nation.

“Our only concern is to make sure that he brings concrete answers to the population’s day-to-day problems,” Saurel Francois, a representative for the Famni Lavalas party of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in the Chamber of Deputies, told reporters here after Saturday’s vote.

Bellerive, a former planning and external cooperation minister, will be sworn in next week by President Rene Preval, becoming Haiti’s sixth prime minister since 2004.

Haitian Senators voted on October 30 to oust Michele Pierre-Louis from the post, claiming that she failed to improve the impoverished country’s economy.

This French-speaking country is still trying to recover from the ravages of a series of four hurricanes and storms last year, which killed about 800 people, wiped out crops, and caused severe damage infrastructure across Haiti.