CPT: The Final Farce of a Dishonorable Transition
By La Rédaction · Port-au-Prince
· 3 min read · Updated 24 April 2026
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In the dying throes of its supposed mandate, the Presidential Transitional Council (CPT) offers the country one of its most dismaying spectacles: a quarrel over signatures, seats, and egos, where national urgency demanded courage, clarity, and responsibility. Two weeks before the end of its power, this transitional team, already disqualified by its inertia, attempts a final act of political prestidigitation: making the Prime Minister the scapegoat for a resounding collective failure.
After nearly two years of sterile governance, marked by rampant insecurity, multiple scandals, institutional collapse, a significant sovereignty deficit, and the total loss of state credibility, the CPT suddenly pretends to discover the inefficiency of the head of government. What hypocrisy! The Prime Minister was neither a foreign body nor an accident of circumstance: he is a political creature of the CPT, appointed, supported, and maintained by the same presidential advisors who now feign indignation. An Artificial Crisis to Mask Failure Five of the seven presidential advisors with deliberative votes have signed a resolution aimed at revoking the Prime Minister. But the Council's Coordinator, refusing to sign and transmit the document for publication, has transformed this decision into an institutional standoff. The legal question—signature or not, majority or coordination—now serves as a smokescreen for a much starker reality: the CPT is disintegrating because it never knew how to govern.
Make no mistake: this conflict is not a battle for legality or good governance. It is a political survival struggle among actors aware that their time at the head of the state will go down in history as one of the most sterile and irresponsible of the recent post-constitutional period. The Myth of the Coordinator's Veto Some analysts, in a worrying intellectual confusion, try to make people believe that the absence of the Coordinator's signature would nullify any CPT decision. This interpretation is legally unfounded and politically suspect. Nowhere in the April 3, 2024 agreement is there any mention of a veto right granted to the Coordinator. The CPT is a collegial body, and the qualified majority of five out of seven members constitutes the sovereign expression of its will.
To go further is to refuse to see the essential point: the presidential advisors are equal in rights and responsibilities. The Coordinator is neither a monarch nor a supreme arbiter; he is a primus inter pares. And as such, he can be challenged by the same majority that has the authority to revoke the Prime Minister. A Transition Under Foreign Tutelage Even more serious is the attitude of representatives from the United States and Canada, who were quick to rally behind the Prime Minister in the name of supposed 'stability'. Since when is stability built on failure, insecurity, inaction, and paralysis? This stance reveals a disturbing truth: the Haitian transition has never been fully sovereign. Major decisions continue to be made under the gaze, and often under the pressure, of foreign chanceries, more concerned with a controllable status quo than with the country's true salvation.
The Haitian political class, emanating from the CPT, true to itself, is divided over a personal quarrel, unable to ask the only worthwhile question: what purpose has the CPT truly served? An Undignified End to the Mandate With less than two weeks left in their mandate, seeking to revoke the Prime Minister is politically ridiculous. It is the ultimate admission of failure. Presidential advisors and the head of government are bound by a common responsibility: that of having let time pass without vision, without results, and without courage. All have a rendezvous with history on February 7, 2026. And on that day, no last-minute maneuver, no belated resolution, no quarrel over signatures will be able to erase the reality: the CPT will have failed, not for lack of power, but for lack of statesmanship.
What is unfolding today at the pinnacle of the transition is not an institutional crisis; it is the final farce of a power without a compass, more concerned with its symbolic survival than with the destiny of a country on its knees. Pierre Josué Agénor Cadet
After nearly two years of sterile governance, marked by rampant insecurity, multiple scandals, institutional collapse, a significant sovereignty deficit, and the total loss of state credibility, the CPT suddenly pretends to discover the inefficiency of the head of government. What hypocrisy! The Prime Minister was neither a foreign body nor an accident of circumstance: he is a political creature of the CPT, appointed, supported, and maintained by the same presidential advisors who now feign indignation. An Artificial Crisis to Mask Failure Five of the seven presidential advisors with deliberative votes have signed a resolution aimed at revoking the Prime Minister. But the Council's Coordinator, refusing to sign and transmit the document for publication, has transformed this decision into an institutional standoff. The legal question—signature or not, majority or coordination—now serves as a smokescreen for a much starker reality: the CPT is disintegrating because it never knew how to govern.
Make no mistake: this conflict is not a battle for legality or good governance. It is a political survival struggle among actors aware that their time at the head of the state will go down in history as one of the most sterile and irresponsible of the recent post-constitutional period. The Myth of the Coordinator's Veto Some analysts, in a worrying intellectual confusion, try to make people believe that the absence of the Coordinator's signature would nullify any CPT decision. This interpretation is legally unfounded and politically suspect. Nowhere in the April 3, 2024 agreement is there any mention of a veto right granted to the Coordinator. The CPT is a collegial body, and the qualified majority of five out of seven members constitutes the sovereign expression of its will.
To go further is to refuse to see the essential point: the presidential advisors are equal in rights and responsibilities. The Coordinator is neither a monarch nor a supreme arbiter; he is a primus inter pares. And as such, he can be challenged by the same majority that has the authority to revoke the Prime Minister. A Transition Under Foreign Tutelage Even more serious is the attitude of representatives from the United States and Canada, who were quick to rally behind the Prime Minister in the name of supposed 'stability'. Since when is stability built on failure, insecurity, inaction, and paralysis? This stance reveals a disturbing truth: the Haitian transition has never been fully sovereign. Major decisions continue to be made under the gaze, and often under the pressure, of foreign chanceries, more concerned with a controllable status quo than with the country's true salvation.
The Haitian political class, emanating from the CPT, true to itself, is divided over a personal quarrel, unable to ask the only worthwhile question: what purpose has the CPT truly served? An Undignified End to the Mandate With less than two weeks left in their mandate, seeking to revoke the Prime Minister is politically ridiculous. It is the ultimate admission of failure. Presidential advisors and the head of government are bound by a common responsibility: that of having let time pass without vision, without results, and without courage. All have a rendezvous with history on February 7, 2026. And on that day, no last-minute maneuver, no belated resolution, no quarrel over signatures will be able to erase the reality: the CPT will have failed, not for lack of power, but for lack of statesmanship.
What is unfolding today at the pinnacle of the transition is not an institutional crisis; it is the final farce of a power without a compass, more concerned with its symbolic survival than with the destiny of a country on its knees. Pierre Josué Agénor Cadet
