Rouzier was a supporter of the 2004 coup d’etat that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide for the second time, and accused him to be “one of the most violent rulers Haiti ever had,” and argued that Aristide’s “only intent seems to have only been to replace the dictators that preceded him rather than to promote real change in Haiti.” In 2010, he was appointed as Honorary Consul from Jamaica to Haiti. On 15 May 2011, he was appointed Prime Minister by President Michel Martelly the day after his inauguration, but the Chamber of Deputies of Haiti, dominated by the Opposition, rejected his nomination on 21 June 2011 for allegedly paying only $600 in taxes during a five-year span while earning hundreds of millions of dollars. President Martelly has expressed disappointment with the deputies, but he accepted it.