The Transitional Presidential Council appointed Alix Didier Fils-Aimé as Haiti’s new Prime Minister following the removal of Garry Conille, selecting a businessman and economist with experience in the Haitian private sector to lead the government through the remainder of the transitional period. Fils-Aimé’s background in business and economics was seen by council members as appropriate for a government that needed to address both the immediate security and humanitarian crises and the longer-term economic recovery challenges.
Fils-Aimé acknowledged the difficulty of the moment in his acceptance statement, noting the multiple simultaneous crises his government would need to manage and calling for the unity and support of all Haitian political actors and international partners. He committed to the same goals as his predecessor — security, humanitarian response, and elections — while signaling that he intended to manage the relationship with the Transitional Presidential Council differently than Conille had.
International partners maintained their support for the transitional arrangement through the prime ministerial change, emphasizing continuity of engagement while expressing the expectation that the new government would demonstrate the governance effectiveness that its predecessor had struggled to deliver. The change at the top of the government, they noted, did not change the fundamental challenges the transition needed to address.
The appointment of a second prime minister within six months of the transitional government’s formation highlighted the institutional fragility of an arrangement that had been designed to provide stability but was itself subject to the political competition it was supposed to transcend. Whether Fils-Aimé could navigate the council’s political dynamics more successfully than Conille remained to be seen as the year ended.