After several weeks of struggle and internal debate, the Transicin Presidential Council elected its president by simple majority and also proposed to the prime minister that he should lead sharp to the celebration of a presidential election and to prepare the arrival of the police forces of Kenya. The council appointed from among its seven members Edgard Leblanc Son, emblematic figure of the Organization of the People in Struggle (OPL), former presidential candidate and former president of the Senate.
From the first day Leblanc Fils, who represents the opposition alliance of Collective January 30, He had emerged as one of the strong men of the transition. The existing agreement is that none of them can be a presidential candidate in the presidential elections.
“We are going to make decisions regarding security to “free the country from gang action,” Leblanc stressed in his first words to the country, after welcoming the result of a low-minimum agreement.
The coalition of gangs named Live together challenged the State in February with an unprecedented offensive, which freed thousands of its own in the most important prisons in the country and put the prime minister in check, Ariel Henry. The gangsters took advantage of Henry’s trip to Kenya to attack the National Palace, the airport, government headquarters, police stations and the port, which made the return of the prime minister impossible, who refused to call elections even though the Caribbean country no longer had any public elected office. Henry came to power in 2021 as a result of the international agreement after the assassination of the then president, Jovenel Mose.
The pulse of the gangs forced the Caribbean Community (Caricom) y USA They would look for an emergency solution and the bet was the formation of the Transicin Presidential Council, whose consolidation has taken more weeks than expected. The appointment as Prime Minister of Friz Belizaire, former Minister of Youth and Sports in the former president’s cabinet Ren Preval during the gigantic earthquake of 2010. He is a little-known political personality, but he has the support of four of the seven members of the Council, headed by Leblanc Fils himself, the country’s new strongman.
Along with the coordinator of the council, the figure of the former anti-corruption judge also emerges Emmanuel Vertilaire, belonging, as Belize, a Son of Dessalines, the party of the powerful former senator Moise Jean Charles.
The next step is to elect a council of ministers. On the horizon there remains a deadline for holding the long-awaited elections: February 2026.
“It is a crucial step in the implementation of Haiti’s national political agreement. The transparent and compliant appointment of a prime minister, as well as the rapid formation of a new government, are vital for the stability of the country. It is essential to support the deployment of the Multinational Security Support Mission by the UN Security Council and open a credible path towards the democratic renewal of Haiti,” he pondered. Luis Almagro, secretary general of the Organization of American States.