Port-au-Prince, March 19.- Haiti is today much closer to having a Presidential Transition Council (CPT), after a group achieved consensus on its candidates.
The leader of the NOULHA political party and signatory of the December 21 Agreement, Louis Gérald Gilles was designated by the various branches of this group to be part of the CPT.
His name was sent the day before to the Caribbean Community (Caricom), which now officially has six personalities for the CPT.
“Yes, we have reached an agreement with the minority bloc of the December 21 Agreement to appoint Louis Gérald Gilles to the Presidential Council,” said former deputy Vikerson Garnier, who ran for the CPT.
Former deputy Abel Descolines, who supported Vikerson Garnier's candidacy, also confirmed the consensus reached around Gilles.
“Levaillant Louis-Jeune and Vikerson Garnier, the two candidates of the December 21 Agreement, met and reached an agreement on Louis Gérald Gilles as our representative in the Presidential Council,” former senator Sorel Jacinthe confirmed to the newspaper Le Nouvelliste.
The former parliamentarian explained that everything related to Gilles was sent to Caricom for the necessary follow-up.
Now everyone is waiting for the next step of Caricom, so that the CPT begins to function, but surely the first thing will be to publish the list of said group that will work under the aegis of Michel Patrick Boisvert, at the head of the Council of Ministers.
The CPT is now made up of six members, among them are the Collective of Political Parties of January 30, which nominated Edgard Leblanc; Fanmi Lavalas nominated Leslie Voltaire; Marie Ghislaine Mompremier is the representative of the EDE, RED and Historical Commitment group.
The Montana Agreement elected Fritz Alphonse, Laurent St Cyr was appointed by the private sector and Louis Gérald Gilles represents the December 21 Agreement.
Caricom is trying to install the council before the deployment of the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti.
The CPT, once in office, will have to appoint a Prime Minister; form a government in concert with him.
Also form the Provisional Electoral Council; formulate additional needs for ordinary national security forces to address the international community and establish a National Security Council.
Likewise, he will sign decrees and orders issued by the Council of Ministers; and the continuation of relations with Kenya within the framework of the International Security Support Mission.
The council will enjoy all the presidential powers conferred by the Constitution. (Text and photo: PL)
