He is the leader of the Pitit Desalin political party, and was a candidate for President of Haiti in 2015, and again in 2016, when the presidential elections were redone.

[3] He resigned from the Senate with 2 years left on his mandate in protest to allegedly having been offered a bribe to stop his opposition against then President Michel Martelly.

[4] Jean-Charles completed his studies at the National School of Milot and the Lycée Philippe Guerrier in Cap-Haïtien.

"[7] In March 2024, Moïse Jean-Charles proposed the establishment of a Presidential Council after the support of other parties, following the gang crisis in Haiti.

[8] In January 2022, Jean-Charles was detained in the United States on his way back to Haiti from a visit to Nigeria and held overnight.