HAITI: ON THE HORIZON OF FEBRUARY 7, 2026

THE TIME FOR A TRUE INTER-HAITIAN DIALOGUE Ending the interminable transition, building a rational agreement, giving the country a clear direction, and building the Nation. By Evans PAUL
Centre ABC – ATIZAN BON CHANJMAN
Acting for the Common Good 🚨 NATIONAL ALERT On the horizon of February 7, 2026, Haiti faces an undeniable reality:
the country can no longer continue to survive from transition to transition, without a clear direction, without lasting stability, without a shared national project. This date must neither be reduced to a mere constitutional deadline nor used as a pretext for a new political showdown.
It constitutes, above all, a moment of historical responsibility, calling for lucidity, courage, and collective maturity. Haiti has reached the limit of:
• political improvisation;
• sterile confrontation;
• provisional solutions;
• transitions without a horizon. The time has come to change methods, language, and national posture. CHANGING THE PARADIGM Managing the crisis is no longer enough.
It is now necessary to exit it definitively. This requires effective governance based on five fundamental pillars:
1. a credible public and national security mechanism;
2. an education and vocational training system adapted to national realities;
3. a productive, job-creating economy;
4. a lasting framework for political and social stability;
5. credible electoral competition, guaranteeing democratic alternation and popular participation. These pillars form the basis of a new national direction. A CRISIS THAT HAS BECOME STRUCTURAL The Haitian crisis is no longer cyclical.
It is global, profound, and cumulative. It is characterized by:
• the collapse of security;
• the loss of territorial control;
• the delegitimization of institutions;
• the paralysis of the State;
• economic exhaustion;
• massive poverty;
• social despair;
• the exodus of vital forces. To this situation is added a major deviation: the transition has become a permanent mode of governance. What should have been exceptional has become the norm —
a norm that further weakens the Republic each day. THE INTERMINABLE TRANSITION: A COLLECTIVE FAILURE No recent transition has allowed for:
• the lasting restoration of security;
• the re-establishment of State authority;
• the stabilization of institutions;
• the rebuilding of public trust;
• the unification of a credible national project. Deprived of consensus, vision, and popular legitimacy, the transition has turned into a political deadlock. The central question is therefore no longer just: who governs? but rather: how, why, and in whose name does one govern? THE TIME FOR REASON Faced with this deadlock, Haiti is called to an act of national maturity. It becomes imperative to prioritize:
• reason over passion;
• dialogue over confrontation;
• construction over destruction;
• the general interest over particular interests. No single actor holds the solution alone. The exit from the crisis cannot be:
• imposed;
• decreed;
• imported. It can only be concerted, assumed, and inter-Haitian. FOR A RESPONSIBLE INTER-HAITIAN DIALOGUE The time has come to engage in a true, serious, structured, and inclusive inter-Haitian dialogue, involving:
• responsible political forces;
• organized civil society;
• the productive private sector;
• universities and intellectuals;
• religious denominations;
• community organizations;
• the Haitian diaspora. This dialogue must be neither symbolic,
nor cosmetic,
nor based on the sharing of positions. It must become: a space for truth, responsibility, and national decisions. TOWARDS A RATIONAL AGREEMENT FOR CRISIS RESOLUTION The objective of the inter-Haitian dialogue is clear: to achieve a rational political agreement,
based on the realities of the country and not on circumstantial calculations. This agreement must be based on non-negotiable national priorities:
• effective restoration of security;
• restoration of State authority;
• guaranteed institutional stability;
• a time-limited mission government;
• urgent economic recovery;
• rehabilitation of public trust;
• credible preparation for democratic refoundation. It is not about governing indefinitely,
but about getting the State back on its feet and the Nation moving. BUILDING THE NATION History teaches a fundamental truth: The heroes of 1804 founded the Haitian State.
The Nation, however, remains to be built. Building the Nation implies:
• a pact of collective responsibility;
• a culture of republican respectability;
• a national will based on security, stability, and prosperity;
• a definitive break with violence, exclusion, and chaos. Without a nation, there will never be a strong State.
Without dialogue, there will never be a nation. ON THE HORIZON OF FEBRUARY 7, 2026: A HISTORICAL CHOICE IS IMPERATIVE February 7, 2026 must be:

• neither a new stampede;
• nor a leap into the unknown;
• nor a Pyrrhic victory;

but an act of national refoundation in the service of the common good. Haiti is at a crossroads:
• either perpetual transition;
• or the courageous choice of dialogue, reason, and responsibility. SUMMARY The time for headlong flight is over.
The time for one camp to dominate another is over. The time has come:
• to speak without fear;
• to listen without arrogance;
• to decide without ego;
• to act for the Common Good. Haiti lacks neither intelligence nor courage.
It lacks unity, method, and a shared vision. Inter-Haitian dialogue is not a weakness.
It is today the only rational path to save the Republic and build the Nation. CENTRE ABC
ATIZAN BON CHANJMAN
Acting for the Common Good Evans Paul
Former Prime Minister