Louise Harel
| Louise Harel | |
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| City Councillor for Maisonneuve–Longue-Pointe | |
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In office 2009–2013 |
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| Preceded by | Claire St-Arnaud |
| Succeeded by | Laurence Lavigne Lalonde |
| Leader of the Opposition | |
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In office June 6, 2005 – August 21, 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Bernard Landry |
| Succeeded by | André Boisclair |
| Leader of the Parti Québécois Interim |
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In office June 6, 2005 – November 15, 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Bernard Landry |
| Succeeded by | André Boisclair |
| MNA for Hochelaga-Maisonneuve | |
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In office September 25, 1989 – November 5, 2008 |
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| Preceded by | First Member |
| Succeeded by | Carole Poirier |
| MNA for Maisonneuve | |
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In office April 13, 1981 – September 25, 1989 |
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| Preceded by | Georges Lalande |
| Succeeded by | Riding Dissolved |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
April 22, 1946 Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville, Quebec |
| Political party |
Parti Québécois Coalition Montréal Vision Montréal (formerly) |
| Residence | Montreal, Quebec |
Louise Harel (born April 22, 1946) is a Quebec politician. In 2005 she served as interim leader of the Parti Québécois following the resignation of Bernard Landry. She was also interim leader of the opposition in the National Assembly of Quebec. She represented the riding of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in the Montreal region, and its predecessors, from 1981 to 2008. She ran for Mayor of Montreal as the representative of the Vision Montreal municipal political party in the 2009 election, but was defeated by incumbent Gérald Tremblay. In the 2013 Montreal election, Harel supported federalist Marcel Côté for mayor but failed to be elected to her own council seat.
Harel was born in Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville, Quebec. She graduated in 1977 from the Université de Montréal with a law degree and was admitted to the bar in 1978. She worked at the national secretariat, the Centre des services sociaux de Montréal and the Social Development Council of Metropolitan Montreal as a staff member. She has been a member of the Parti Québécois (PQ) since 1970 and was the president of the party in Montreal-Centre in the 1970s and the vice-president of the party province wide from 1979 to 1981.
She was first elected to the National Assembly in the 1981 election as the Member of the National Assembly (MNA) for Maisonneuve. In 1984, she was appointed Minister of Cultural Communities and Immigration by Quebec Premier René Lévesque, and served until the government's electoral defeat in the 1985 election. She retained her seat that year and in 1989 (when it was renamed Hochelaga-Maisonneuve), however, and served in opposition for the next five years.
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