“The CPT is a walking corpse,” observed the signatory structures of the April 3, 2024 agreement against the CPT
By La Rédaction · Port-au-Prince
· 3 min read · Updated 24 April 2026
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Stakeholders want to cut the ground from under the Transitional Presidential Council, amid a growing context of insecurity, despite law enforcement efforts to eradicate the phenomenon. Separately, they express almost unanimous positions on the Council's future.
Montana, first, represented by Fritz Jean, called for the latter to resign, as according to them, he is involved in various corruption scandals: intelligence funds, police contracts, customs, the DGI, the Ministry of National Education, and an alleged embezzlement of 400 million gourdes for Flag Day. The January 30 Collective, represented by Edgard Leblanc, also demanded the resignation of their representative, for lack of lucidity and connivance with Fritz Jean. He is also involved in all corruption cases, particularly those concerning the PNH.
The December 21 agreement, for its part, is split into two groups and demands the resignation of Gérald Gilles for political reasons and his alleged involvement in the BNC scandal. He recently denounced his peers for corruption, accusing them of having a voracious appetite for dirty money to the detriment of the collective interest, by refusing to act against insecurity.
The group led by Claude Joseph's EDE demanded the resignation of Smith Augustin for political reasons and his alleged involvement in the BNC scandal. Pitit Dessalines, for its part, has already threatened to demand Vertilaire's resignation due to the CPT's inaction regarding insecurity. It should be noted that, although he was denounced like the other CPT members, he is the only one who called for measures against insecurity and stated he was ready to resign from this group of criminals, corrupt, and audacious individuals.
The latest, and with a bang, is the call for the resignation of Leslie Voltaire from Fanmi Lavalas, long perceived as a person of integrity, but who ultimately sank into the ocean of corruption. He is cited in several cases: theft and sale of land in complicity with the Director General of the police, theft of money from Les Cayes airport, racketeering of general directors he himself had appointed, embezzlement of funds by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, at the MTPTC, in intelligence, and connivance with Jean Fritz, who was revoked for theft at the BRH.
The private sector, as usual, remains silent while the country sinks. Its representative merely observes without saying anything, while controlling the Prime Minister's Office with a Prime Minister who acts like a good child and becomes an accomplice of the CPT. He should have, in the manner of Conille, asked the ULCC to investigate all CPT members for corruption, particularly Fritz, Edgard, Leslie, and Laurent Saint-Cyr, based on the RNDDH report. The two observer members are complicit in all these criminal and corrupt acts orchestrated in the country. They are also responsible, as the RNDDH report so well stated.



