Garry Conille was removed as Haiti’s Prime Minister by the Transitional Presidential Council in November 2024, just six months after his appointment, in a decision that revealed the depth of political tensions within the transitional arrangement and raised questions about the council’s ability to maintain the governance stability needed to deliver on its mandate. The removal came amid reports of irreconcilable differences between Conille and council members over key policy decisions and resource allocation.
The circumstances of Conille’s removal were disputed, with different actors characterizing the conflict differently. Some council members accused Conille of governance failures and inability to work within the council’s authority structure. Conille and his supporters argued that council members had been interfering in day-to-day governance decisions in ways that undermined his ability to manage the government effectively and that compromised his commitment to technocratic governance.
International partners that had supported the transitional arrangement expressed concern about the political instability signaled by the prime minister’s removal, calling on council members to prioritize governance effectiveness over political positioning. The United States, Canada, and CARICOM called for a rapid transition to a new government that could maintain the momentum of the transitional period.
Haitian civil society organizations viewed Conille’s removal with a mixture of concern and resignation. They had warned when the transitional arrangement was established that the presence of political actors on the council would create tensions with technocratic governance, and those tensions had materialized exactly as predicted. The challenge of building an effective transitional government in Haiti’s political environment had once again proven harder in practice than in theory.