(Port-au-Prince) Garry Conille was officially inaugurated Monday as Prime Minister of Haiti, a country in the midst of a political, security and humanitarian crisis.
A 58-year-old doctor who was already Prime Minister of Haiti for six months between 2011 and 2012, Garry Conille was appointed last week by the Presidential Transitional Council. This collegial body was set up following the resignation in March of Prime Minister Ariel Henry in the face of an outbreak of gang violence in the country.
“Let’s get to work and I assure you that we will deliver what we promised,” he said during the ceremony at the Villa d’Accueil, an official government building in the capital Port-au-Prince. .
“This act authorizes him to initiate the process of forming the government in agreement and consultation with the Presidential Council,” declared Edgard Leblanc Fils, president of this council.
“We are counting on Doctor Conille to put in place the policies that agree with the Presidential Council, so as to particularly address the problem of insecurity and also restore the country’s economy, reform the institutions and achieve credible, democratic elections. , free at the end of 2025,” he added.
The appointment of a prime minister had long been expected, but the presidential transitional council, established in April, was mired in power struggles.
At the end of February, gangs launched coordinated attacks against strategic sites in Port-au-Prince, saying they wanted to overthrow Ariel Henry. The capital Port-au-Prince is 80% in the hands of criminal gangs, accused of numerous abuses, in particular murders, rapes, looting and kidnappings for ransom.
The arrival of a UN-backed security mission led by Kenya is still shrouded in uncertainty.
Meanwhile, the population is also facing a serious humanitarian crisis, with shortages of food, medicine and other basic goods.
The UN World Food Program (WFP) however welcomed on Monday “significant progress” in the delivery of humanitarian aid in the country with the resumption of flights to the international airport of Port-au-Prince and restoring access to a slum in the capital.