Haiti: Revocation Blocked, State Paralyzed or Fractured
By La Rédaction · Port-au-Prince
· 3 min read · Updated 24 April 2026
Translated from French — AI-assisted and reviewed by the editorial team. The French version is authoritative. Read the original · About our translation policy
Haiti is burning. And at the highest level of the state, signatures are being debated. A majority vote by the Transitional Presidential Council (CPT) reportedly decided to revoke Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé for treason and incompetence. But the decision is suspended due to the Coordinator's refusal to sign the resolution for its transmission to Le Moniteur. Thus, the Republic is held hostage by an administrative formality transformed into a political weapon.
We must call things by their name: this is not a legal problem; it is a lack of courage.
The law is not the real obstacle
The publication in Le Moniteur is brandished as if it were the keystone of the rule of law. This is false. Administrative publicity is a formality, not a source of political legitimacy. The principle is clear: the authority that appoints can revoke. The rest falls under procedure, not decision-making power.
To transform this step into an institutional lock is to organize paralysis. It is to choose ambiguity over responsibility. It is to prefer maneuvering to clarity. Meanwhile, the population watches this absurd theater with a mixture of weariness and contained anger. It knows that both the CPT and the Fils-Aimé government have failed. It expects security, a constitutional referendum, elections. It receives intrigues, rivalries, and backroom calculations.
This disconnect between national urgency and institutional quarrels is an insult to collective suffering.
Even more serious: the attitude of certain foreign diplomats, notably American and Canadian, who behave less like partners than like self-appointed arbiters of Haitian political life. This invasive presence, tolerated if not solicited, speaks volumes about the state of our sovereignty.
A country whose major decisions seem to depend on external signals is not in transition. It is under informal guardianship.
And the national political class? Silent. Prudent. Calculating. Many fear sanctions, loss of visas, diplomatic isolation. Others carry liabilities that make them vulnerable. So, they remain silent. They wait. They adapt.
But silence in the face of the weakening of sovereignty is not neutrality: it is complicity.
The scandal is not just the blocking of a revocation. The scandal is that a country plunged into insecurity, misery, and institutional collapse sees its leaders unable to decide, to take responsibility, and to act.
They govern by hesitation. They lead by calculation. They temporize while the nation disintegrates.
Beyond individuals and functions, one truth is clear: no transition will succeed without a clear national will for re-foundation. As long as decisions are dictated by fear, external pressures, and personal interests, legal texts will serve only as a backdrop.
According to legal principles and the transitional framework, publication in Le Moniteur is not the decisive condition for the revocation of a Prime Minister; it is for the appointment of their successor. Using this argument to block a majority decision is therefore less about law than about shirking responsibility. Haiti is not paralyzed by its laws. It is paralyzed by those who refuse to uphold them. Pierre Josué Agénor Cadet
We must call things by their name: this is not a legal problem; it is a lack of courage.
The law is not the real obstacle
The publication in Le Moniteur is brandished as if it were the keystone of the rule of law. This is false. Administrative publicity is a formality, not a source of political legitimacy. The principle is clear: the authority that appoints can revoke. The rest falls under procedure, not decision-making power.
To transform this step into an institutional lock is to organize paralysis. It is to choose ambiguity over responsibility. It is to prefer maneuvering to clarity. Meanwhile, the population watches this absurd theater with a mixture of weariness and contained anger. It knows that both the CPT and the Fils-Aimé government have failed. It expects security, a constitutional referendum, elections. It receives intrigues, rivalries, and backroom calculations.
This disconnect between national urgency and institutional quarrels is an insult to collective suffering.
Even more serious: the attitude of certain foreign diplomats, notably American and Canadian, who behave less like partners than like self-appointed arbiters of Haitian political life. This invasive presence, tolerated if not solicited, speaks volumes about the state of our sovereignty.
A country whose major decisions seem to depend on external signals is not in transition. It is under informal guardianship.
And the national political class? Silent. Prudent. Calculating. Many fear sanctions, loss of visas, diplomatic isolation. Others carry liabilities that make them vulnerable. So, they remain silent. They wait. They adapt.
But silence in the face of the weakening of sovereignty is not neutrality: it is complicity.
The scandal is not just the blocking of a revocation. The scandal is that a country plunged into insecurity, misery, and institutional collapse sees its leaders unable to decide, to take responsibility, and to act.
They govern by hesitation. They lead by calculation. They temporize while the nation disintegrates.
Beyond individuals and functions, one truth is clear: no transition will succeed without a clear national will for re-foundation. As long as decisions are dictated by fear, external pressures, and personal interests, legal texts will serve only as a backdrop.
According to legal principles and the transitional framework, publication in Le Moniteur is not the decisive condition for the revocation of a Prime Minister; it is for the appointment of their successor. Using this argument to block a majority decision is therefore less about law than about shirking responsibility. Haiti is not paralyzed by its laws. It is paralyzed by those who refuse to uphold them. Pierre Josué Agénor Cadet
