On 10 November 2024 Haiti's Transitional Presidential Council abruptly dismissed interim Prime Minister Garry Conille and installed businessman Alix Didier Fils-Aime in his place, a contested move that deepened the country's institutional crisis less than six months after Conille took office. The nine member council had been created in April 2024 to steer Haiti toward elections after the gang uprising that forced out Ariel Henry, and it had appointed Conille, a former UN official and one time prime minister, in May. Relations soured almost immediately, with the council and the prime minister clashing over cabinet appointments and control, and Conille resisting a reshuffle amid corruption allegations against several council members.
Over a weekend the council signed a decree, which leaked a day before its planned publication, sacking Conille and naming Fils-Aime, a former head of Haiti's chamber of commerce. Eight of the nine council members signed; one abstained. Notably three of the signatories were themselves under investigation for allegedly soliciting a large bribe.
Conille and various legal figures called the dismissal unconstitutional, arguing that under Haiti's constitution only parliament can remove a prime minister and that the council had overstepped its authority, but with no functioning parliament and no elected leadership, the council prevailed. Fils-Aime took over.
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Target identified in Coup Atlas research: Interim PM Garry Conille, dismissed by decree of the Transitional Presidential Council and replaced by Alix Didier Fils-Aime; not physically harmed
RESEARCHED NAME
Key figures
Garry Conille (interim prime minister dismissed)
Alix Didier Fils-Aime (businessman installed as prime minister)
the Transitional Presidential Council (CPT)
Leslie Voltaire (council chair who pushed the removal)
Sources
A transitional council tasked with re-establishing democratic order in Haiti signed a decree sacking interim Prime Minister Garry Conille, a contentious move that highlighted deepening political turmoil, replacing him with businessman Alix Didier Fils-Aime; the nine member council, formed in April, had appointed Conille in May but had been plagued by infighting and long at loggerheads with the prime minister.
There were divergent views on whether the transitional council had the power to remove Conille, since constitutionally only the Haitian Parliament can fire a prime minister, but Haiti was in the throes of a constitutional crisis with no Parliament and no democratically elected leader in the entire country.
Eight of the council's nine members signed the order removing Conille while former Senator Edgard Leblanc Fils abstained, and three members who signed, Smith Augustin, Emmanuel Vertilaire, and Louis Gerald Gilles, were among those accused by anti-corruption investigators of demanding 750,000 dollars in bribes from a government bank director.
The move was criticized by figures such as former Justice Minister Bernard Gousse, who said Conille's dismissal was illegal because the council was over-extending its powers, while Conille, who insisted on cabinet stability and resisted reshuffling amid bribery allegations against council members, signaled his intent to contest the legality of his dismissal.
EXAMINED the auto-coup coding, as flagged. Coded fate not physically harmed is verified: this was a bloodless executive dismissal, not a violent overthrow. Coded as an auto-coup on 11-10: the fit is defensible on the reading that the Transitional Presidential Council, the collective executive, overrode the normal constitutional process (only parliament can remove a PM) to fire and replace the prime minister, a power grab within the ruling authority, which Conille and legal critics called unconstitutional. It is a milder, institutional auto-coup (a council-versus-PM reshuffle amid a constitutional vacuum), not a classic seizure, and the summary makes that character explicit and presents the legality dispute neutrally. Ties directly to the Haiti 2024-03-04 record: this council was the body created after the gang uprising forced out Henry. Notable that some signatories were themselves under bribery investigation.
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Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Interim PM Garry Conille, dismissed by decree of the Transitional Presidential Council and replaced by Alix Didier Fils-Aime; not physically harmed.
Baseline coding: Incumbent executive removed from power. Recorded leader fate: deposed; not physically harmed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Cline Center Coup d’État Project Dataset, v2.2.2
Peyton, Buddy, Joseph Bajjalieh, Michael Martin, and Andrea Gerald. 2026. Cline Center Coup d’État Project Dataset. Cline Center for Advanced Social Research. V.2.2.2. February 17. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. doi: 10.13012/B2IDB-9651987_V10
⚑ This citation establishes the coded baseline record; use the claim-level sources above for the researched narrative.
Baseline Source-Document Entries
Associated Press
“Haiti Replaces It’s Prime Minister, Marking More Turmoil In Its Democratic Transition Process,” By Evens Sanon, November 10, 2024
BBC
“Haiti’s Prime Minister Ousted After Six Weeks,” by Jameie Whitehead, November 10, 2024
Miami Herald
“Haiti’s Presidential Council Fires Prime Minister, Names Businessman in Controversial Move,” by Jacqueline Charles, November 11, 2024
New York Times
“Haitian Prime Minister Is Fired, Adding to the Nation’s Turmoil,” by Francis Robles, November 10, 2024
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