Haiti is undergoing a new prime minister, marking a major upheaval in its democratic transition process

An interim council created to re-establish the democratic order Haiti signed a decree on Sunday to dismiss the country’s interim Prime Minister Garry Conille and replaced him with Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, a businessman who had been considered for the project.

The decision, which was due to be published on Monday, was provided to The Associated Press by a government source. It marks further turmoil in Haiti’s already rocky democratic transition process, which has yet to take hold. democratic elections years due in large part to rising levels of gang violence plaguing the Caribbean nation.

Fils-Aimé, former president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Haiti and in 2015 ran an unsuccessful campaign for the Senate. The businessman studied at Boston University and was previously considered for the position of a private company in this position before Conille took the seat.

Conille, a longtime civil servant who worked with the United Nations, served as prime minister for only six months.

I reform council established in April, it was tasked with choosing Haiti’s next prime minister and Cabinet with the help of helping to end the chaos in Haiti. But this council is plagued by politics and fighting, and in October a number of members of this council faced allegations of corruption.

This process happened again in October when three members of the council were charged with corruption, by anti-corruption investigators who said they wanted a $750,000 bribe from a state bank director to get a job.

The report had a major impact on the nine-member council and is expected to destroy people’s trust in it.

Those same members accused of bribery, Smith Augustin, Emmanuel Vertilaire and Louis Gérald Gilles, were among those who signed the resolution. Only one member, Edgard Leblanc Fils, did not sign the order.