Haiti's Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe resigns after protests Sunday Dec 14,2014

Haiti's Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe 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.

President Michel Martelly was to have called polls in 2011, but they were postponed in a stalemate over electoral law.

Opposition politicians accuse President Michael 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.

Parliament's mandate expires in January, and unless elections are held, Mr Martelly would rule by decree.

A commission set up to break the stalemate said on Friday that Prime Minister Laurent
Lamothe should resign, along with the head of the Supreme Court and the country's election commission.

President Michel Martelly said earlier that the accepted the commission's findings, and would meet government officials on Monday to discuss them.