An intense institutional standoff between Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) and the interim government has escalated into an open political conflict. On Wednesday, June 3, 2026, the Council of Ministers issued an official executive decree appointing Uder Antoine as the new Director General of the CEP. In a swift countermove, the electoral body drafted an emergency resolution signed by eight of its nine ruling council members, summarily firing Antoine from his current position as Executive Director and banning him from entering any CEP facilities nationwide.
Prior to the decree, Antoine had maintained an excellent working relationship with the council members over the last two months, successfully overseeing preliminary drafts for the national election budget and statutory frameworks. However, the CEP viewed Antoine’s acceptance of the government’s promotion as a direct breach of institutional trust, particularly since his new title derived from the controversial June 2 electoral decree that the CEP has publicly condemned as an unconstitutional expansion of executive power. The dismissal order requires Antoine to immediately surrender all government-issued property and operational materials.
This escalation follows a sequence of conflicting public narratives; on Tuesday, Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé’s administration issued a press release claiming a “convergence of views” regarding election safety, which the CEP aggressively denied hours later by asserting that the Prime Minister was attempting to bypass constitutional checks and balances. With the executive branch and the independent electoral watchdog now actively nullifying each other’s administrative actions, the timeline for stabilizing the country’s democratic framework remains severely compromised.
