Port-au-Prince, Haiti.-Five members of the Presidential Transition Council (CPT) of Haiti, of the seven with voting rights in the body, signed a resolution demanding the dismissal of Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, according to reports this Thursday by the Haitian press and an NGO.
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 for it to be immediately sent to the National Press (official gazette) for publication.
The Port-au-Prince Post newspaper reports that the signatories are putting pressure on 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 mandate, according to local media.
US warning
The United States warned that any attempt by Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council (CPT), whose mandate expires on February 7, to change the composition of the Government would be considered an act that undermines efforts to restore basic security and stability in the country, and said it will respond accordingly.
This was expressed by the Undersecretary of the US State Department, Christopher Landau, in a message on
“The United States’ objective for Haiti remains the establishment of basic security and stability,” said the American diplomat.
Landau’s statement comes with just over two weeks left until the expiration of the mandate of the CPT, a collegiate body made up of nine members that exercises the leadership of the State on a rotating basis, without Haitian actors having managed to agree on a single proposal that defines how to continue governing the country.
Also almost two months after council member Fritz Alphonse Jean denounced that the United States sanctioned him for leading a movement to remove Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé from office. In a document distributed to the press on November 25, Alphonse recorded an alleged exchange of messages with the charge d’affaires of the American embassy, Henry T. Wooster, who conveyed to him that he understood that he (Alphonse) “is part of the group that works to bring down the head of the government.”
“If you and your family value your relationship with the United States, I strongly urge you to desist from efforts to remove the Prime Minister,” Wooster noted in his message, according to the CPT member. In said statement, Alphonse also explains 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 presidential councilors have engaged in conversations and a process aimed at replacing him.”
This situation led the president of the Presidency Council, Laurent Saint-Cyr, to call for “unity, common sense and national responsibility in favor of the best interest of the Haitian people,” in a letter dated November 26 and addressed to the members of that body.
More than 8,100 murders were committed in Haiti between January and November 2025, a figure that is estimated to be underestimated due to limited access to areas controlled by armed gangs, according to a report by the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (Binuh).
Armed violence in Haiti, mired in a severe crisis for years, has intensified in urban and peri-urban areas, where gangs use large-caliber weapons and carry out coordinated attacks on several fronts.
The Council
—1— Division
The division within the CPT was attributed to the implementation of a plan for the dismissal of the prime minister, Fils-Aimé.
—2— Management
It is due to his “failure” at the head of the Government.
—3— Electoral
Authorities declared 2026 as the election year to elect a president in Haiti.
No sign of Barbecue for days
Search. The public absence of Jimmy Chérizier, alias Barbecue, head of the Viv Ansanm criminal coalition, keeps Haiti in suspense.
For just over seven days, the gang leader has not left a trace on social networks, a channel that he used systematically to send messages, justify violent actions or try to wash his image before the population.
The silence comes after a series of attacks carried out by the Haitian National Police using drones, which destroyed at least three homes in the Delmas 6 sector, identified by local media as part of the Chérizier operational center. According to the Haitian newspaper Gazette Haïti, the houses were pulverized in broad daylight.
