The following year, he began working on an agricultural project involving organic banana production from a plantation covering more than 10 hectares (25 acres) in the Nord-Ouest department.

[13] The government granted tax-free access to the land, 15 years' exemption from income tax and customs duties on the purchase of capital equipment,[2] and a $6 million loan to a new company, Agritrans, owned by Moïse, the president of the local chamber of commerce.

[17] Moïse received 32.8% of votes in the first round of the elections held on 15 October 2015, with 54 candidates competing, qualifying for a runoff with the second-place finisher, Jude Célestin.

[18][19] However, an exit poll conducted by the Haiti Sentinel reflected that Moïse had only received about 6% of the vote, and Célestin called the results fraudulent.

In second, third, and fourth place was mechanical engineer Jude Celestin of LAPEH with 19.52%, leftist senator Jean-Charles Moïse of the Platfòm Pitit Dessalines (PPD) with 11.04%, and Maryse Narcisse of Fanmi Lavalas (FL) with 8.99%.

Ambassador to the United Nations, Kelly Craft, to discuss the methods necessary to implement a consensual resolution of Haiti's political crisis through inclusive dialogue.

[31][peacock prose] President Moïse built the second-largest hydropower plant and agricultural water reservoir in Haiti after Péligre Dam.

[39] President Moïse built several asphalt plants in several provinces in Haiti, including in Gros Mornes,[40] Les Cayes,[41] and Trou-du-Nord.

[43] These allegations, coupled with a declining quality of life for Haitian citizens throughout his administration led to mass protests demanding his resignation.

A press release issued later that day from the office of acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph blamed the attack on "a group of unidentified individuals, some of whom spoke in Spanish."

[60] Judge Garry Orélien, who was previously the top judicial official in Haiti overseeing the case, stated that Henry was friends with Badio and planned the assassination with him.

On February 20, 2024, Associated Press announced that the Haitian court had indicted his wife, Martine Moïse, ex-prime minister Claude Joseph, and the former chief of Haiti’s National Police, Léon Charles, along with other unnamed suspects with his murder.

Widely perceived as uncompromising and headstrong, Moïse was criticized for his vehement intolerance of dissent and political opposition, and for his attempts to consolidate the government and remain in power.