Boniface Alexandre – Wikipedia
Boniface Alexandre (Born July 31, 1936 in Ganthier) is a Haitian judge, politician and was President of Haiti.
Studied and professional career [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
Alexandre completed a study of law after the school attendance and received the support of his uncle, the lawyer and later Prime Minister Martial Célestin in particular. After completing his studies, he worked as a lawyer in the Cabinet Lamarre law firm for twenty -five years, where he specialized as a specialist lawyer for business contracts and divorce procedures.
In 1990 he was appointed judge at the Supreme Court ( Supreme Court ). In June 2001 President Jean Bertrand Aristide then appointed him President of the Supreme Court. As such, he acquired the reputation of a respected judge within a legal system regarded as a corrupt. In addition, as the top judge, he joined the fighting of corruption and incompetence in the courts. In addition to his work as a judge, he also worked as a professor of law at the Université d’e état d’Haïti in Port-Au-Prince.
On April 25, 2003, he was appointed honorary citizen of Lafayette, Louisiana.
President of Haiti from 2004 to 2006 [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
After the dismissal and escape of President Aristide, he was sworn in as an incumbent president due to the constitution of Prime Minister Yvon Neptune in the early morning of February 29, 2004. [first]
Although he took over this office, Article 149 of the Haitian constitution provided for his confirmation by the parliament, which, however, had not had a meeting since January 2004, since the election time of most MPs had ended. According to the constitution, the maintenance of new elections after 45 days up to the end of 90 days after the resignation of the incumbent was planned, although his own candidacy was forbidden as an incumbent president. In addition, he expressed his personal unwillingness to remain in the office of acting president about this constitutional maximum time, after the incumbent minister Gérard Latortue, which was only appointed on March 10, 2004, did not want to remain in office.
Although Alexandre kept close relationships with former President Aristide, he did not belong to his Lavalas Party (“Blazing flood”).
Shortly after his appointment as incumbent president, political opponent Aristid accused him of close relationships with the previous system and that, as President of the Supreme Court, he was not active enough to explain the independence of the Supreme Court by the executive.
One of his first activities as President was the submission of an official request to the United Nations Security Council to send a multinational UN protection force for the production of public order in Haiti, [2] which was granted by the UN Security Council shortly afterwards. [3]
Although the rebel leaders like Guy Philippe explained their willingness to cooperate with President Alexandre, [4] In particular, American politicians saw his role in solving the conflict in Haiti as subordinate and his government only as a transitional government.
In his first speech as President after his official inauguration on March 8, 2004, he called for national reconciliation, the reason for a climate of peace and security for everyone and an emergency plan to combat hunger, poverty and illness. In December 2005 there were multi -day bloody student protests during the state visit of the President of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernández, because of the treatment of Haitian refugees in the neighboring state. [5]
After the presidential election, which were actually only carried out in February 2006, he handed over the office of President to the election winner on May 14, 2006, the former President René Préval.
- ↑ Poonal (press service of the Latin American agencies): Interim President Boniface Alexandre – a specialist in separations ( Memento from February 18, 2008 in Internet Archive )
- ↑ Press release of the UN Security Council on February 29, 2004
- ↑ “U.N. to send peacekeepers to Haiti” , CCN of March 1, 2004
- ↑ Chronicle Haiti, March 2004
- ↑ “In Haiti a long awaited students anti-Dominican protest turns violent” , Artikel in We Haitians
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