P-au-P, 28 from 2024 [AlterPresse] — Doctor Garry Conille was chosen, this May 28, 2024, by the Presidential Transitional Council, to lead the next government, AlterPresse learns from an official source.
“The Transitional Presidential Council, by consensus, chose Garry Conille to lead the transitional government,” wrote advisor-president Fritz Alphonse Jean on his X account.
The decision was taken “following discussions within the Presidential Transitional Council after the hearings of the candidates selected for the position of Prime Minister”, explains Edgard Leblanc Fils in a post on the social network X.
Current regional director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for Latin America and the Caribbean (since January 2023), Garry Conille, 58, already held the position of Prime Minister, from September 5, 2011 to 16 May 2012 (after resigning on February 24, 2012, he remained in office until the inauguration of his successor Laurent Lamothe) under the administration of President Michel Martelly (May 14, 2011 – February 7, 2016).
At the end of a standoff with his own ministerial cabinet in rebellion against him and united with Martelly, he had to resign on February 24, 2012.
Garry Conille had launched an audit on the management of the previous government led by Jean Max Bellerive.
The doctor thus won over four other competitors: former ministers Fritz Bellizaire, Paul Antoine Bien Aimé, former parliamentarian and minister Rodolphe Joazile and entrepreneur Alix Didier Fils Aimé.
For almost a month now, after the installation of the Presidential Transitional Council on April 30, 2024, it has been the wait. Various voices continue to express their impatience to see a new team take the reins of the administration, limited, for the moment, to handling current affairs.
The problems to be addressed, particularly that of armed gang violence, are significant. Attacks against the population and public and private buildings, systematically vandalized and/or set on fire, continue to increase.
More than 30 police stations, sub-stations and police branches have been, since the end of February 2024, vandalized and burned by armed bandits, grouped within a coalition of gangs called Live together (live together), according to the Citizen Protection Office.
Impatience was also evident in diplomatic circles, at a time when the Americans have been engaged, for several weeks, in setting up a logistics base in Port-au-Prince to accommodate a multinational security force led by Kenya.
“We look forward to a transparent process, which will allow Haiti to have a prime minister and a transitional government,” read a recent post on the X account of the American embassy in Port-au-Prince. [gp apr 28/05/2024 19:00]
