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'''Boniface Alexandre''' ({{IPA-fr|bɔnifas alɛksɑ̃dʁ}}; 31 July 1936 - 4 August 2023) was a [[Haiti]]an politician. Alexandre served as the provisional [[president of Haiti]] following the [[2004 Haitian coup d'état]] that removed President [[Jean-Bertrand Aristide]] from office. He served until May 2006.
'''Boniface Alexandre''' ({{IPA-fr|bɔnifas alɛksɑ̃dʁ}}; 31 July 1936 – 4 August 2023) was a [[Haiti]]an politician. Alexandre served as the provisional [[president of Haiti]] following the [[2004 Haitian coup d'état]] that removed President [[Jean-Bertrand Aristide]] from office. He served until May 2006.


==Life==
==Life==

Revision as of 20:03, 4 August 2023

Boniface Alexandre
President of Haiti
Provisional
In office
29 February 2004 – 14 May 2006
Preceded byJean-Bertrand Aristide
Succeeded byRené Préval
Personal details
Born(1936-07-31)31 July 1936
Died4 August 2023(2023-08-04) (aged 87)
Spouse
(m. 1990; died 2020)
ChildrenFour

Boniface Alexandre (French pronunciation: [bɔnifas alɛksɑ̃dʁ]; 31 July 1936 – 4 August 2023) was a Haitian politician. Alexandre served as the provisional president of Haiti following the 2004 Haitian coup d'état that removed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from office. He served until May 2006.

Life

Alexandre was raised by his uncle, Martial Célestin, Haiti's first prime minister. Trained as a lawyer, he worked for a law firm in Port-au-Prince for 25 years before being appointed to the Supreme Court in 1992. Aristide appointed him as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Haiti in 2002.[1]

Alexandre, as the Chief Justice and therefore next in the presidential line of succession, assumed the office of president after the coup. During Alexandre's acting presidency, Amnesty International reported "excessive use of force by police officers", extrajudicial executions, a lack of investigations into these, escalation of "unlawful killings and kidnappings by illegal armed groups", failure of officials to prevent and punish violence against women, dysfunctionality of the justice system, and forty or more people imprisoned without charge or trial.[2]

Alexandre left office on 14 May 2006, when René Préval, winner of the February 2006 presidential election, was sworn in as president. He died on August 4, 2023 at his home in Haiti.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ R. Hall, Michael (2012). Historical Dictionary of Haiti. Scarecrow Press. p. 14. ISBN 9780810878105.
  2. ^ "2006 Annual Report for Haiti". Amnesty International. 2006. Archived from the original on 29 November 2008. Retrieved 6 August 2009.
  3. ^ Fallece Boniface Alexandre, expresidente provisional de Haití Template:Es