PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) – Haiti’s Presidential Transitional Council (TPC) says it has appointed, by decree, 52 year-old businessman Alix Didier Fils-Aimé as prime minister.

“The appointment decree 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 TPC said.

The decree, 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, had opposed Leslie Voltaire’s appointment as his successor and had 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 councillors who remain voting members and signed off on the transition.

Last month, anti corruption investigators accused those three council members of demanding US$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 April 16, 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 was Senate candidate for the West Department under the banner of the Vérité Party, holds a degree in business management from Boston University and completed a Leaders in Development Programme from Harvard University.

In addition, he also served as chairman of the Board of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Haiti (CCIH) and the West Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIO).

He is a founding member of the Haitian Association of Information and Communication Technology Companies (ATIC). He was also a member of the Presidential Commission on Information and Communication Technologies whose mandate was to formulate strategic proposals to inspire the action of the State in the long term.