P-to-P, April 30, 2024 [AlterPresse] — The representative of the Collective of Political Parties of January 30, 2023, engineer Edgard Leblanc Fils (former president of the senate from 1995 to 2000) [1]69, has just been designated by majority consensus, this Tuesday, April 30, 2024, president (coordinator of Council actions) of the Presidential Transitional Council (Cpt), noted the online agency AlterPresse.
This choice occurs 6 days after the official installation, on Thursday April 25, 2024, of the 9 members of the Cpt at the National Palace.
Instead of a formal vote, there was an agreement reached between the 7 voting members of the Cpt, informed the press Frinel Joseph, one of the 2 non-voting members with the agronomist Régine Abraham (the 2 playing the role of observer in the meetings of the Presidential Transitional Council).
“During the discussions this morning (Tuesday April 30, 2024) with the 7 voting members of this Council, a majority was reached and an agreement was found for Edgard Leblanc Fils to be elected president of the Cpt,” explains Frinel Joseph .
This majority is made up of Edgard Leblanc Fils (Collective of political parties of January 30, 2023), Smith Augustin (from the Democratic Resistance/Engaged for Development/Red-Ede platform and the Compromis historique political grouping), Louis Gérald Gilles (agreement of December 21, 2022), Emmanuel Vertilaire (political party Son of Desalin).
“This agreement only binds this majority,” Frinel Joseph wishes to clarify.
The vote, which was planned for the election of a president/coordinator of actions at the Cpt, in the presence of the press and representatives of the signatory sectors of the political agreement of April 3, 2024 creating the Cpt, was abandoned at benefit from this agreement.
This agreement follows the installation of the 9 members of the Cpt, on Thursday April 25, 2024, carried out at the National Palace, in a context of increasing terror and violence from armed gangs, which occupy approximately 90% of the metropolitan area of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Fritz Bélizaire, new transitional prime minister
In a note received by the electoral office, composed of Frinel Joseph and Régime Abraham from the civil society group, this majority proposed a prime minister named Fritz Bélizaire, reports Frinel Joseph.
Fritz Bélizaire was a former minister of youth and sports under the presidency of René Préval in 2007.
Cohesion of actions within the Cpt is essential, according to the new coordinator of the Presidential Transitional Council
Most important. it is the cohesion within the Cpt, the search for consensus and negotiation allowing decisions to be made in the interest of Haiti, particularly on security issues, believes Edgard Leblanc Fils, who claims to play rather the role of coordinator of the actions of the Presidential Transitional Council.
While deploring the suffering of thousands of victims of acts of crime, Leblanc reiterates the Cpt’s desire to work to change the situation.
This agreement of Tuesday April 30, 2024 would be the result of a consensus, of a concession. “It’s an exercise showing that we can obtain results,” he declares, recognizing the long time taken since the official installation on Thursday, April 25, 2024, before the choice of a coordinator of actions at Cpt.
The Presidential Transitional Council will take appropriate measures to restore security on the territory of Haiti, promises Edgard Leblanc Fils, recalling, in this perspective, the[holdingofameetingonMondayApril292024betweentheCpttheHaitianNationalPolice(Pnh)andtheArmedForcesofHaiti(Fad’h)
Brief historical overview of the 9 members of the Presidential Transitional Council
The members of the Transitional Presidential Council are Smith Augustin, Louis Gérald Gilles, Fritz Alphonse Jean, Edgard Leblanc Fils, Laurent Saint-Cyr, Emmanuel Vertilaire and Leslie Voltaire, who have the right to vote in the discussions of the said Council as well as Régine Abraham and Frinel Joseph who play the role of observer.
The Cpt has a mandate of 22 months, which should lead to the assumption of office of elected leaders on February 7, 2026.
A broad political agreement, concluded on Wednesday April 3, 2024, is the basis of this evolution of the political situation in Haiti.
The stakeholders in the Presidential Transitional Council are: the Collective of Political Parties of January 30, 2023, the Political Organization Avalanche familyThe political party Son of Desalinthe Democratic Resistance/Engaged for Development (Red/Ede) platform and the political grouping Historic Compromise, Agreement of August 30, 2021 known as the Montana Agreement, employers’ associations and groups of Haitian businessmen and women, Agreement of December 21, 2022 (outgoing government coalition), the Civil Society Group and the Rally for a National Accord (Ren)/Inter-Foi.
The 9 members of the Council recognized how they will have to face immense challengesaccording to the comments expressed, during the second part of the ceremony of their installation, held on Thursday April 25, 2024 at the Villa d’Accueil, after the first part at the National Palace
“Today marks only the first day of the work necessary to restore order, discipline, peace and conditions favorable to the creation of wealth in this devastated country,” underlined Régine Abraham, on behalf of the 9 members. of the Presidential Transitional Council.[embrcapr04/30/202411:59]
[1] Born in 1955 in Miragoâne, in the Nippes department (part of southwest Haiti), Edgard Leblanc Fils is the general coordinator of the political party Organization of the People in Struggle (Opl). He was designated as delegate of the Collective of Political Parties from January 30, 2023 to the Presidential Transitional Council.
