The President of the Provisional Electoral Council, Jacques Desrosiers, has formally requested an emergency summit with Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé to address the worsening constitutional dispute between the executive branch and the election watchdog. Relations between both state dependencies have deteriorated rapidly since their executive assembly on June 2, 2026, driven by the publication of the government’s controversial election guidelines in the official gazette Le Moniteur and the unilateral appointment of Uder Antoine as Director General of the electoral body.
In the official correspondence, Desrosiers revealed that the General Secretariat of the Prime Minister’s office phoned him to announce that the executive branch intends to formally install Antoine at the CEP headquarters this Friday, June 5, 2026. Desrosiers strongly rebuffed the move, emphasizing that the independent council has consistently rejected the installation of an executive-appointed director, an unconstitutional overreach they previously fought against during the tenure of the former Transitional Presidential Council. The CEP President warned that this institutional standoff is on the verge of plunging the nation into a deeper constitutional crisis, calling on the Prime Minister to approve a swift and positive response to the meeting request in order to prevent an administrative clash that would undermine the credibility of the transition framework.
