The businessman Alix Didier Fils-Aimé became the new first minister of Haiti promising “peace” and ” security “for that troubled Caribbean country, after the council presidential of transition dismissed his predecessor just about five months after appointing him.
Fils-Aimé, 52, was dressed in a
ceremony held in Port Prince replacing Garry Conille which faced the council for weeks for control of the government.
In your
first speech, the first Minister Fils-Aimé promised to dedicate all his energy to save a country devastated by violence of the gangs .
“The first essential task that determines the success of the
transition is the restoration of the security “, he declared. “The Haitian people deserve peace, stability and sustainable development.”
The advice
presidential of nine members – formed in April through an agreement between political parties and civil society – took the reins of the country after the resignation of the unpopular first Minister Ariel Henry, with the promise to stop the bands criminals that plague the country.
Upon assuming leadership, its members also committed to leading Haiti towards his first
elections since 2016 and to appoint a first minister at the head of an interim government.
Conille
tried to avoid his dismissal claiming that the council presidential He did not have the power to remove him and that only a Parliament could do so, a legislative body that the country lacks.
The change of
first minister opens a new term uncertainty in the Caribbean nation, which has not had any elected leader since the assassination of Jovenel Moïse in 2021, and who has been suffering from the violence gang activity, poverty and political instability.
A fight of can
The decision to dismiss
Conille a 58-year-old doctor who had already been first minister for six months between 2011 and 2012, arrived after weeks of conflict between the leader and the council transition .
The body wanted to change the heads of the ministries of Justice, Finance, Defense and Health, a decision rejected by the
first minister, according to the American newspaper Miami Herald .
Conille
added fuel to fire this week by sending a letter to the council asking for the resignation of three of its members implicated in a corruption scandal.
While the Haitian leaders disputed the
can the gangs They have continued to threaten the state and the population.
Several of these armed groups, which control 85% of the metropolitan area of
Port Príncipe and the country’s main roads allied in February to overthrow Henry’s government with a series of attacks against key infrastructure such as the airport international police stations and prisons.
a mission international
ineffective.
a force
international supported by the UN and funded largely by Washington, began deploying this summer to help Haitian police in their fight against the gangs .
But months after the arrival of its first members, this mission takes time to obtain visible results
in front of some bands good armed and organized.
According to a
report recent of the UN between January and June 2024, there were more than 3,600 homicides and 1,100 kidnappings in Haiti.
The United Nations document also indicates that the
gangs
They adapted their actions to the deployment of force international made up of about 400 police and military personnel, mostly Kenyans.
The
violence forced more than 700,000 people – half of them children – to leave their homes, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
This Monday, the airline United States Spirit Airlines reported that one of its planes was shot at when it landed at the airport in Port Prince and had to be diverted to the neighboring Dominican Republic.
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