{"id":214680,"date":"2024-04-17T07:34:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T11:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=214680"},"modified":"2024-04-17T08:32:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T12:32:32","slug":"prime-minister-ariel-henry-signs-decree-that-officially-removes-him-from-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/04\/17\/prime-minister-ariel-henry-signs-decree-that-officially-removes-him-from-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Ariel Henry signs decree that officially removes him from government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ariel-Henry-El-Nacional-1024x678.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-210987\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ariel-Henry-El-Nacional-1024x678.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ariel-Henry-El-Nacional-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ariel-Henry-El-Nacional-768x508.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ariel-Henry-El-Nacional.png 1070w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Evangelical pastor Frinel Joseph and former World Bank official Regine Abraham have been appointed as non-voting observer members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new decree states that members would &#8220;be required to submit the necessary documents within a reasonable timeframe, and that if they are unable to do so, they will be obliged to resign.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/mundo\/haiti\/2024\/04\/16\/crisis-en-haiti-l-henry-firma-decreto-designa-consejo-de-transicion\/2676454\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/news\/decree-names-haiti-transition-council-members-after-outcry-6f950516\">Barrons <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haitilibre.com\/en\/news-42128-haiti-flash-false-decree-appointing-the-members-of-the-presidential-transitional-council.html\">Haiti Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/haitiantimes.com\/2024\/04\/16\/port-au-prince-haiti-gang-armed\/\">Haiti Times <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 April 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/04\/17\/prime-minister-ariel-henry-signs-decree-that-officially-removes-him-from-government\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[330,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214742,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214680\/revisions\/214742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}