In a momentous national address marking Haiti’s constitutional milestone on February 7th, Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé delivered a solemn declaration of the nation’s path forward following the conclusion of the Presidential Transitional Council’s mandate. The Prime Minister’s speech, characterized by its grave tone and profound sense of national duty, emphasized February 7th as symbolizing republican continuity, popular sovereignty, and the Haitian people’s unwavering aspiration for freedom, security, and dignity.
While acknowledging the efforts and sacrifices made by the CPT members during nearly two years of extreme complexity, Fils-Aimé conceded that the transition process remains incomplete. Persistent insecurity and the inability to conduct elections within originally scheduled timelines have hampered progress. Nevertheless, the Prime Minister resolutely affirmed that Haiti will not yield to discouragement or internal division, maintaining that the transition’s core mission remains unchanged: restoring security, organizing free and democratic elections, and transferring power to legitimately elected leadership.
The address contained strong commitments to combatting the nation’s security crisis, with Fils-Aimé promising relentless pursuit of armed gangs and their accomplices. The Haitian National Police and Armed Forces will operate with intensified coordination and continuity until complete territorial control is reestablished and peace returns to communities. Recognizing widespread social suffering, the government will immediately implement an emergency humanitarian plan providing food assistance, healthcare, and shelter to vulnerable populations, asserting that security and dignity must advance together.
Fils-Aimé issued a powerful appeal for national unity, inviting all sectors—political parties, civil society, private sector, religious leaders, artists, youth, women, farmers, and the diaspora—to transcend divisions and unite around a republican pact centered on security, elections, and economic recovery. The international community received both gratitude for existing support and a call for strengthened, coordinated commitment to Haiti’s stability and gang violence eradication.
In a solemn pledge, the Prime Minister vowed to lead this decisive phase with truth, courage, firmness against terror, and humanity toward the suffering population, ensuring state impartiality and guaranteeing freedoms, justice, and electoral transparency. Concluding with a call for trust, courage, and civic vigilance, Fils-Aimé affirmed that a united people never loses its way, declaring: ‘The time for coming together has come. The State is reclaiming its place. Life must go on. Haiti will not perish.’