He served as provisional president of Haiti from 2004 to 2006 after Aristide relinquished the presidency. The 2004 Haitian coup d'état removed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from the Americas on 29 February 2004. Following this, Alexandre, as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and therefore next in the presidential line of succession, assumed the office of president. During Alexandre's acting presidency, Amnesty International reported "excessive use of force by police officers", extrajudicial executions, a lack of investigations into these, escalation of "unlawful killings and kidnappings by illegal armed groups", failure of officials to prevent and punish violence against women, dysfunctionality of the justice system, and forty or more people imprisoned without charge or trial.