Haitian PM installs transition council to prepare for long-awaited elections

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry on Monday formally installed a transition council whose job will be to prepare for long-overdue elections in the Caribbean country, amid a humanitarian crisis driven by violence from armed gangs.
Haiti, which has been without any elected representatives since early January, last held a presidential vote in 2016.
“This is the beginning of the end of dysfunction in our democratic institutions,” Henry said in a speech, adding that the High Transition Council (HCT) unanimously backed his request for an international force to help police restore order.
Henry took power in July 2021 days after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise. He has pledged to leave office by Feb. 7, 2024, after postponing elections indefinitely in the wake of a devastating earthquake that affected the Southern Peninsula, along with gang violence.