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Port-au-Prince,.- Five members of the Haitian Presidential Transition Council (CPT), of the seven with voting rights in the body, signed a resolution demanding the dismissal of Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, according to Haitian media and an NGO this Thursday.
The signatories of the resolution are identified by press sources as Smith Augustin, Louis Gérald Gilles, Leslie Voltaire, Fritz Alphonse Jean and Edgard Leblanc, who intend that it be sent immediately to the National Press (official gazette) for publication.You may be interested in: The end of the collegiate presidential mandate in Haiti is approaching and there are no agreements in sight
This information is released after the United States warned that any attempt by the Presidential Transition Council, whose mandate expires on February 7th, to modify the composition of the Government would be considered an act that undermines efforts to restore basic security and stability in the country, and noted that it will respond "accordingly". The Port-au-Prince Post newspaper reports that the signatories are pressuring the president of the Presidential Council, Laurent Saint-Cyr, to have the document published immediately in the official gazette or else he may be removed from office. Saint-Cyr does not want to change the government two weeks before the end of the CPT's term, according to local media. The U.S. Under Secretary of State, Christopher Landau, stated in the last few hours that the United States "would consider any attempt to change the composition of the Government, by the Presidential Transition Council" of Haiti "as an attempt to undermine" the goal of establishing "basic security and stability" in the Caribbean country and that it "will act accordingly". In a message posted on X, Landau added that the United States "would consider that anyone who supports such a disruptive measure that favors gangs is acting against the interests of the United States, the region, and the Haitian people, and will act accordingly." "The United States' goal for Haiti remains the establishment of basic security and stability," said the number two of the U.S. Department of State. Almost two months ago, Council member Fritz Alphonse Jean denounced that the United States sanctioned him for leading a movement to remove Prime Minister Fils-Aimé. In a document distributed to the press on November 25th, Alphonse also outlined his reasons for withdrawing support for the current prime minister, who, in his opinion, "has no interest in collaborating with the CPT", which is why "the presiding counselors have engaged in conversations and a process aimed at replacing him". This situation led Saint-Cyr to call for "unity, common sense and national responsibility in favor of the higher interest of the Haitian people", in a letter dated November 26th and addressed to the members of that body.
