Public hostilities between Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) and the interim government showed initial signs of cooling down following an emergency meeting on Friday between Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé and CEP President Jacques Desrosiers. While the executive branch successfully forced its baseline agenda by publishing its contested electoral decree in the official gazette and installing Uder Antoine as Director General, both institutions have agreed to restore formal diplomatic and operational channels.
According to internal administrative updates shared with the local press, the ruling electoral council instructed Desrosiers to meet individually with the Prime Minister to establish a framework for immediate technical working sessions. The CEP plans to review the newly gazetted decree to isolate and catalog all unconstitutional elements ahead of a comprehensive secondary assembly scheduled for Sunday. Electoral officials hope these upcoming negotiations will compel the executive branch to issue formal corrective amendments to the published law and review the controversial operational implementation of an executive-appointed director within an independent state body.
Despite the renewed dialogue, council sources maintained their strict opposition to Antoine’s structural placement, characterizing it as executive overreach that directly threatens the neutrality of the democratic roadmap. CEP members clarified that their legal resistance is not a reflection of Antoine’s professional capacity—acknowledging his deep expertise within the national electoral apparatus—but rather a defense of constitutional independence designed to prevent contested election results. This diplomatic detente follows a chaotic cycle that began on June 2, 2026, when the CEP aggressively rejected a prime ministerial press release claiming institutional alignment, setting off a rapid sequence of opposing decrees and dismissal resolutions.
