Port-au-Prince, 5 February 2026 — A meeting convened under the auspices of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) has ended without institutional breakthrough, as a key Haitian political grouping publicly withdrew recognition from the country’s embattled transitional framework.
Speaking after the talks, Dr Emmanuel Ménard, representing the Consortium Patriotique, said the Presidential Transitional Council (CPT) had lost any remaining political and moral standing. In his view, the council’s internal fragmentation and growing public discredit made further dialogue untenable. “Engaging with what remains of the CPT is no longer defensible,” he said, according to a statement circulated following the meeting.
Ménard argued that a shift should occur from 7 February, the date marking the formal end of the CPT’s mandate. He called on social, economic and political forces to begin negotiations with the prime minister, who would preside ad interim over a council of ministers exercising executive authority. The objective, he said, would be the establishment of a new interim governance arrangement capable of restoring security, public order and institutional stability.
Caricom, which has played a central mediating role in Haiti’s transition since 2024, has not issued an immediate response. The absence of consensus at the meeting underscores the persistent fragility of Haiti’s political architecture, as international partners and domestic actors struggle to define a credible pathway beyond a transition increasingly perceived as exhausted.
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