When the Presidential Transitional Council (CPT) was installed in April 2024, weary Haitians saw it as a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel. This body — composed of seven voting members and two observers — was meant to restore stability, rebuild public trust, and organize free elections before February 7, 2026. But eighteen months later, the outcome is devastating:

Let’s be clear. Elections don’t fix a war zone. You don’t vote your way out of a crisis where the only thing with authority is an AR-15 and a ruthless gang leader. Before we talk about ballots, we need to talk about bullets and the people holding them. Disarming gangs and restoring basic security has to come first. Otherwise, any vote is just theater — a staged performance pretending we still have a functioning republic.