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Weekly Report - 14 August 2025 (WR-25-32)
HAITI: New CPT leader takes over amid steep challenges
The challenges facing Haiti’s unpopular transitional presidential council (CPT) look steeper than ever as its final phase gets underway, after the inauguration on 7 August of prominent businessman Laurent Saint-Cyr as its leader charged with overseeing elections in November. Saint-Cyr took over from Fritz-Alphonse Jean to become the CPT’s fourth and, theoretically, final leader before it is due to hand over power on 7 February 2026 to Haiti’s first democratically elected president since Jovenel Moïse was voted into power in 2016, before his assassination in 2021.
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