In one week, on August 7, Laurent St-Cyr will succeed Fritz Alphonse Jean as coordinator of the Transitional Presidential Council. While Edgard Leblanc Fils and Leslie Voltaire managed their terms as CPT coordinators without official conflicts with their fellow council members, Fritz Alphonse Jean’s tenure has thus far been marked by turbulence—clashing with Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, several ministers, and presidential advisors Louis Gérald Gilles, Smith Augustin, and Emmanuel Vertilaire.

President Jean held only three Council of Ministers meetings in five months. “Yes, but practically only two. The third was a special Council meeting aimed at salvaging the new penal code and the referendum decree. It was a historic meeting that lasted less than half an hour,” a CPT member told Le Nouvelliste.