section_path: History (2020–2022)/2022 crisis/Montana Accord
section_name: Montana Accord
paragraph_text: Montana Accord
  
  On 30 January, the Transition Council defined by the August 2021 Montana Accord (named for the hotel in Pétion-ville where it was signed) elected the former interim prime minister and former central bank governor Fritz Jean as president and Steven Benoît as prime minister for a two-year transition government. While the political class called for him to step down at the end of Jovenel Moïse's term (7 February 2022), Ariel Henry rejected these demands, along with the results of the Montana Accord election, as a "distraction", saying that organizing the next elections was part of his mandate.