Is the Presidential Council Dysfunctional?

Relations among members of the Transitional Presidential Council (CPT) are deteriorating. Divided over the allocation of positions in the public administration—including diplomatic posts—the CPT members are failing to coordinate their actions. While CPT Coordinator Fritz Alphonse Jean told Le Nouvelliste that the Council is working on several issues, Presidential Advisor Smith Augustin denounces what he calls an “authoritarian individualism” on the part of the CPT’s leader.

Robenson Geffrard
Par Robenson Geffrard
11 Jun 2025 | Lecture : 5 min.

Two Council of Ministers meetings in three months for an executive governing a country at war with criminal groups is a clear sign of dysfunction among the nation’s leadership. Since the April 14 Council of Ministers meeting, during which the amended 2024–2025 “war budget” was adopted, the nine members of the CPT and the government have been operating as a fragmented entity. There is no cohesion within the transitional leadership. Presidential advisors are holding meetings and traveling abroad without aligning with a

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