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). Edgard Leblanc was one of six people named as a potential prime minister, but
Fritz Jean ended up getting the nod. 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. ==References==