SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.N. Security Council members warned Haiti’s leaders on Wednesday that time is running out to restore security and hold general elections as the deadline to install a new government nears.

Haiti’s transitional presidential council is tasked with holding general elections before Feb. 7, 2026, when the nine-member council is supposed to step down.

“The transition clock is ticking. I am concerned that a steady path toward the restoration of democratic governance is yet to emerge,” Carlos Ruiz Massieu, special representative of the U.N. Secretary-General for Haiti and head of the U.N. Integrated Office in Haiti, said at the U.N. Security Council meeting on Wednesday.

A date for a general election, the first in almost a decade, has not been announced as gang viol

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