DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

Prime Minister Ariel Henry signed the decree that appoints a presidential transition council in Haiti. The priorities of the transitional council are to bring law and order, mainly to Port-au-Prince, the capital, and prepare the elections by 2026.

A previous decree in Le Moniteur had not indicated the names of the seven voting and two non-voting observers of the presidential transition council.

The members are former diplomat Smith Augustin, ex-senator Louis Gerald Gilles, former central bank governor Fritz Alphonse Jean, ex-Senate president Edgard Leblanc Fils, entrepreneur Laurent Saint-Cyr, lawyer Emmanuel Vertilaire and Leslie Voltaire, a former minister and diplomat.

Evangelical pastor Frinel Joseph and former World Bank official Regine Abraham have been appointed as non-voting observer members.

The new decree states that members would “be required to submit the...