Boniface Alexandre

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Boniface Alexandre (French pronunciation: [bɔnifas alɛksɑ̃dʁ]; 31 July 1936 – 4 August 2023) was a Haitian lawyer and jurist who served as the president of the Supreme Court of Haiti from 2002 to 2004. After the 2004 coup d'état that removed Jean-Bertrand Aristide, he served as provisional president of Haiti until 2006. Alexandre was born in Ganthier. After being trained as a lawyer, he worked at a law firm in Port-au-Prince for over two decades. He was appointed as a judge to the Court of Appeals in the late 1980s, and was named to the Supreme Court of Haiti in 1990. In 2002, he was appointed president of the Supreme Court by Aristide. While serving in that role, in 2004 Alexandre assumed the presidency, in accordance with the succession rules of the Haitian constitution. He had a largely symbolic role during his acting presidency and oversaw a transitional government that was tasked with organizing general elections. He stepped down as president after René Préval's victory in the presidential...

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