PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC -The Presidential Transitional Council (TPC) Monday said it had appointed 52-year-old businessman Alix Didier Fils-Aimé as Haiti’s prime minister by decree.
“The appointment decreed has already been published in the National Press, and Didier Fils-Aimé should take office this Monday. The formation of the government is scheduled for Tuesday, November 12.”
The decree, which is published in the official journal Le Moniteur, special issue #57, is signed by eight of the nine members of the Council, including two non-voting observer members.
The signature of Presidential Advisor Edgard Leblanc Fils does not appear at the bottom of this decree. Last month, Leblanc Fils, a former TPC head, opposed Leslie Voltaire’s appointment as his successor and initially refused to sign a decree ratifying the move.
Leblanc Fils had opposed the move to allow for the rotating presidency, citing unresolved corruption accusations against three other councilors who remained voting members and signed off on the transition.
Last month, anticorruption investigators accused those three council members of demanding $750,000 in bribes from a government bank director to secure his job.
According to the decree, having regard to various other decrees published between May 17, 2005, and the Order of 16 April 2024 appointing the members of the Presidential Transitional Council, the TPC “has chosen, by consensus, citizen Didier Fils-Aimé as Prime Minister.”
Fils-Aimé, who ran for Senate in the West Department under the banner of the Vérité Party, holds a degree in business management from Boston University and a Leaders in Development Programme from Harvard University.
In addition, Fils-Aimé also served as chairman of the Board of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Haiti (CCIH) and the West (CCIO).
He is a founding member of the Haitian Association of Information and Communication Technology Companies (ATIC) and the Presidential Commission on Information and Communication Technologies, whose mandate was to formulate strategic proposals to inspire the State’s long-term action.
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