[1][2] Jonassaint served as Head of the Provisional Government of Haiti for five months (May 12 and October 12) in 1994 after the military regime had forced Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the elected president, out of the country in 1991.
Throughout 1994 the U.S. government put pressure on the repressive Haitian military leaders to resign and allow the elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to return to the country.
The Prime Minister at the time, Rene Preval, had left the country following a request by the Parliament (duly elected as well) that he come to their chambers to answer allegations of fraud and abuses of power, among other things.
Throughout August, the army and its paramilitary ally, the 'Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti,' continued to presumably murder some Aristide supporters while organizing parades of "volunteers" to fight an invasion.
[3] Emile Jonassaint signed what is known as the Port-au-Prince Accord and step down as Head of the Provisional Government of Haiti upon the return of the elected president.