A PLAN to install new leadership regime in Haiti appeared to be crumbling on Wednesday as some political parties rejected the plan to create a presidential council that would manage the transition.

The panel would be responsible for selecting an interim prime minister and a council of ministers that would attempt to chart a new path for the Caribbean country that has been over-run by gangs. 

The violence has closed schools and businesses and disrupted daily life across Haiti.

Jean Charles Moise, an ex-senator and presidential candidate who has teamed up with former rebel leader Guy Philippe, said on Wednesday that they rejected the proposed transitional council. 

Mr Moise insisted that a three-person presidential council he recently created with Mr Philippe and a Haitian judge should be implemented.

He said: “We are not going to negotiate it.”

Mr Philippe, who helped lead a successful revolt in 2004 against former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and was recently released from a US prison after pleading guilty to money laundering, said no Haitian should accept any outside proposal.

He said In a social media post: “The decision of Caricom is not our decision,” he said, referring to the regional trade bloc whose leaders presented the US-backed plan to create a transitional council. 

“Haitians will decide who will govern Haiti.”

Other high-profile Haitian politicians, including former army colonel and Grand Rally for the Evolution of Haiti president Himmler Rebu, also refused a place on the proposed transitional council.

The transitional council plan emerged late on Monday following an urgent meeting involving Caribbean leaders, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and others.

Hours after the meeting, unelected prime minister Ariel Henry announced that he would resign once the council was in place.

Mr Henry remains locked out of Haiti because gang attacks have shuttered the country’s airports and is currently in Puerto Rico.