What happened

Haiti’s transitional ruling council on Sunday fired interim Prime Minister Garry Conille and replaced him with Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, a businessman. Conille, a long-time public official, was installed in June work with the new council to stabilize Haiti and hold the country’s first elections since 2016. He called his removal illegitimate.

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The dismissal decision was “made outside of any legal and constitutional framework,” Conille told Haitians in an open letter, adding that he plans to “challenge any illegal actions motivated by narrow political interests that only increase the suffering of our people.” Haiti’s constitution allows parliament to remove a prime minister, but the country’s National Assembly has been empty since early 2023. There has been no president since the unresolved conflict. assassination of Jovenel Moïse in 2021.