FILE PHOTO: Fritz Alphonse Jean addresses is pictured after being elected as the Montana Accord President by members of the electoral commission of the National Transitional Council, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 30, 2022. REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol/File Photo
(Reuters) - Haitian economist and former central bank chief Fritz Alphonse Jean took over the rotating presidency of Haiti's transitional presidential council on Friday, taking the top executive role in a country battling a devastating conflict with armed gangs.
Jean took over from architect Leslie Voltaire in a friendly ceremony, following a more fraught transition in October when the first president refused to sign the transition decree over an unresolved corruption scandal.
