P-to-P, April 30, 2024 [AlterPresse] — This Tuesday, April 30, 2024, the former holder in 2007 (René Garcia Préval/Jacques Édouard Alexis) of the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Civic Action (Mjsac), Fritz Bélizaire, was chosen as first minister to ensure the transition, by a majority of four members of the Presidential Transition Council (Cpt), learns the online agency AlterPresse.
Fritz Bélizaire was proposed as prime minister, according to what Frinel Joseph reported, in an intervention before the press at the Villa d’Accueil (eastern sector), where it was to be held, this Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. morning (2:00 p.m. GMT), a vote to elect a president/coordinator to the Presidential Transitional Council (Cpt).
The announcement of the choice of Fritz Bélizaire as the new head of the transitional government was made in a note, received by the electoral office, which was to ensure the vote for the designation of a coordinator of actions at the Cpt,
The vote ultimately did not take place, following an agreement reached between the voting members of the said Council, for Edgard Leblanc Fils to be elected coordinator.
The majority of four members of the Cpt – in this case Edgard Leblanc Fils, Smith Augustin, Louis Gérald Gilles, Emmanuel Vertilaire – decided to designate Edgard Leblanc Fils as coordinator of the Presidential Transitional Council..
Former senator of Nippes (a part of South-West Haiti) from 1995 to 2000, Edgard Leblanc Fils is the general coordinator of the political party Organization of the People in Struggle (Opl).
He was appointed to the Presidential Transitional Council by the Collective of Political Parties on January 30, 2023.
The choices of Edgard Leblanc Fils as coordinator of the Cpt and Fritz Bélizaire as prime minister of the transition come 6 days after the official installation, on Thursday April 25, 2024, of the 9 members of the Cpt at the National Palace, carried out in a context of multiplication of terror and violence from armed gangs, which occupy approximately 90% of the metropolitan area of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
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 observers.
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.
Its stakeholders are: Agreement of December 21, 2022 (outgoing government coalition), the Agreement of August 30, 2021 known as the Montana Agreement, the Collective of political parties of January 30, 2023, the Political Organization Avalanche familyThe political party Son of Desalinthe Democratic Resistance/Engaged for Development Platform (Red/Ede) and the Historical Compromise political group, employers’ associations and groups of Haitian businessmen and women, the Civil Society Group and the Rally for an Understanding National (Ren)/Inter-Faith.
The 9 members of the Council recognized how they will have to face immense challengesaccording to the comments expressed, during the ceremony held on April 25, 2024 at the Welcome Villa, on the occasion of their installation.
“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 battered country,” underlined Régine Abraham, on behalf of the 9 members of the Presidential Transitional Council. [emb rc apr 30/04/2024 13:10]
