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Edgard Leblanc Fils | |
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![]() Fils in 2024 | |
Chair of the Transitional Presidential Council | |
In office 30 April 2024 –7 October 2024 | |
Prime Minister | Michel Patrick Boisvert (acting) Garry Conille (acting) |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Leslie Voltaire (acting) |
Member of the Transitional Presidential Council | |
Assumed office 25 April 2024 | |
Prime Minister | Michel Patrick Boisvert Garry Conille Alix Didier Fils-Aime |
President of the Haitian Senate | |
In office 13 October 1995 –March 2000 | |
Preceded by | Firmin Jean-Louis |
Succeeded by | Yvon Neptune |
Personal details | |
Born | [1] Miragoâne,Haiti [1] | 18 August 1955
Political party | OPL |
Edgard Leblanc Fils (born 18 August 1955) [2] is a Haitian politician who was president of the Senate from 1995 to 2000 [3] and was the chairman of the Transitional Presidential Council from April to October 2024. [4]
Following President Michel Martelly's resignation on 10 February 2016,he finished second to Jocelerme Privert in the second round of the indirect provisional presidential election in February 2016 (in which only the National Assembly voted). [5]
Edgard Leblanc was one of six people named as a potential prime minister, [6] but Fritz Jean ended up getting the nod. [7]
During a 2024 speech to the United Nations General Assembly,Leblanc called for reparations to Haiti and denounced the Springfield,Ohio pet-eating hoax. A clip of the speech went viral online,showing him drinking water directly from a pitcher,and the presidency was forced to apologize. [8] [9]