Haiti's transitional presidential council will appoint a new prime minister, replacing Garry Conille who was named prime minister of the Caribbean nation in May, according to a draft resolution seen by Reuters which is expected to be published Monday in the official gazette.

Haiti plunged deeper into a constitutional crisis on Sunday, after a council — which was tasked with restoring order to a nation in the grip of gang violence and putting it on the path to free and fair elections — dismissed the acting prime minister,