The name of the NOULHA party leader was sent on Monday, March 18, 2024, to Caricom, which now officially has six names for the Transition Presidential Council. Former senator and influential former member of Fanmi Lavalas, leader of the NOULHA party, and signatory of the December 21 Agreement, Dr. Louis Gérald Gilles was designated by the various branches of this agreement to be part of the Presidential Council. "Yes, we have reached an agreement with the minority bloc of the December 21 Agreement to designate Louis Gérald Gilles to the Presidential Council," former deputy Vikerson Garnier, who was in the running for the Presidential Council, told Le Nouvelliste. Garnier, who had the support of civil society organizations signatory to the December 21 Agreement, emphasized to the newspaper that this decision "will thaw the situation and allow Caricom to move forward with the establishment of the Presidential Council." Former deputy Abel Descolines, who supported Vikerson Garnier's candidacy, also confirmed the consensus reached around Louis Gérald Gilles. "We, the majority bloc of the December 21 Agreement, have shown height since it is in the interest of the country," he told the newspaper. "Yes, it's official. Levaillant Louis-Jeune and Vikerson Garnier, the two candidates, met and reached an agreement on Louis Gérald Gilles as our representative to the Presidential Council," former senator Sorel Jacinthe, considered a member of the minority bloc of the December 21 Agreement, confirmed to Le Nouvelliste. Jacinthe added that Louis Gérald Gilles' name was sent to Caricom on Monday, March 18, for the necessary follow-up. The actors who designated names to the Transition Presidential Council do not have information on how Caricom will proceed to make the Presidential Council functional. "Caricom has not yet informed us of the next steps," former senator Sorel Jacinthe told the newspaper. "But I can anticipate to tell you that whatever the next steps are, the first point must be the publication of the decree with the names of the members of the Presidential Council, and that must come from Haiti with the Council of Ministers headed by Michel Patrick Boisvert," explained Jacinthe, a signatory of the December 21 Agreement, to Le Nouvelliste. Jacinthe also emphasized that at the level of the December 21 Agreement, they are in contact every day with the resigning Prime Minister, Ariel Henry. "He is still in Puerto Rico and he is fine," he told the newspaper. Asked whether Ariel Henry's return to Haiti was on the agenda, Sorel Jacinthe indicated that he was not in a position to answer that question at the moment. The Transition Presidential Council now consists of six members. The Collective of Political Parties of January 30 designated Edgard Leblanc Fils; Fanmi Lavalas designated Leslie Voltaire; Marie Ghislaine Mompremier represents the coalition EDE, RED, and Historical Compromise. The Montana Agreement chose Fritz Alphonse Jean, Laurent St Cyr was designated by the private sector, and Louis Gérald Gilles represents the December 21 Agreement. Invited to designate a representative to the Presidential Council, the leader of the Pitit Dessalines political party, Moïse Jean-Charles, rejected the offer, emphasizing that he is committed to the three names he had himself designated to form a Presidential Council.