US EditionHaiti’s transitional council deepens political chaos by voting to oust the prime minister
The Transitional Presidential Council voted to remove Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé to restore security and pursue Haitian-led governance amid U.S. warnings and rising gang violence.
- On Friday, Haiti’s transitional presidential council announced that a majority voted Thursday to fire Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé at a Port-au-Prince news conference led by Edgard Leblanc Fils and Leslie Voltaire, with no other council members attending.
- Seeking a Haitian solution, the panel argued the council would replace Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé within 30 days to restore security and form a government free of foreign interference.
- Council records show five votes make a majority among the seven members with voting power, but Leblanc and Voltaire did not explain why the nine-member transitional council chose Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé in November 2024.
- The U.S. State Department warned that keeping Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé was `integral` to fighting gangs, while Marco Rubio, U.S. Secretary of State, said the council `must be dissolved by February 7`.
- With the council set to step down on Feb. 7, tentative election dates in August and December this year raise stakes as Laurent Saint-Cyr warns against moves undermining stability.
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Haiti’s CPT moves to fire prime minister as more foreign powers warn against it
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Amid calls from several nations and international entities, including United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio, for Haiti to avoid changes to its government, members of the country’s transitional presidential council (CPT) announced they had voted to fire Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé. Just two weeks before the panel is scheduled to step down, Edgard Leblanc Fils announced at a news conference alongside fellow council…
Five of the seven voting members of Haiti’s Presidential Transitional Council (CPT) approved the dismissal of Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, just two weeks before the agency ends its term of office. The decision deepens instability in a country facing a protracted political crisis, gang violence and an institutional collapse that has dragged on for years. The decision was confirmed on Friday, January 23 by presidential adviser Edgard Lebl…
Haiti's crisis deepens after transitional council votes to oust prime minister
Haiti’s long-running political crisis deepened Friday when the country’s transitional presidential council announced it had voted to fire Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, just two weeks before the panel is supposed to step down
The Haitian Transitional Council wants to dismiss the Prime Minister, while the US and the EU give him their support.
The decision of five of the seven voting members of the Haitian Transitional Presidential Council to remove the Prime Minister, Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, aggravates the situation in the depressed country.
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