Michel Martelly Maryse Narcisse, finished fourth behind Jean-Charles Moïse and also denounced the results during a news conference. The protesters threw rocks and burned tires. The police responded with tear gas and made some arrests. The police also stopped and searched the vehicle of a former top government prosecutor, Claudy Gassant, who is a supporter of Moïse. Martelly resigned the presidency on 10 February 2016, leaving in Haiti without a president for a week. On 17 February 2016, he was succeeded by Jocelerme Privert who serves as interim president. Amid allegations of fraud in the 2015 elections, Privert created a month-long verification
John de Martelly Martelly Benton’s job as head of the Painting Department. De Martelly was furious and quit. De Martelly’s lithographs, sold through the Associated American Artists Galleries in New York in the 1930s and 1940s, captured the essence of the rural American landscape. Eventually, de Martelly took a position as artist-in-residence at Michigan State University in East Lansing. By the late 1940s, de Martelly abandoned Regionalism for Abstract Expressionism and closely studied Daumier. His drawings, paintings, and prints are now in the collections of many museums, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.,