Michel Le Moignan [SEP] occupation
Michel Le Moignan
Michel Le Moignan (November 7, 1919 – December 21, 2000) was a Catholic priest and a Canadian politician from Quebec.
Political career.
Born in Grande-Rivière, Quebec, Le Moignan won a seat to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 1976 provincial election in the district of Gaspé as a member of the Union Nationale.
After party leader Rodrigue Biron left the party in 1980, Le Moignan became the Union Nationale's parliamentary leader for the remainder of the term. Roch
party bottomed out in 1980, when Biron resigned as leader and left the party to sit as an independent, and then joined the Parti Québécois a few months later. Michel Le Moignan, the MNA for the district of Gaspé, took over as interim leader. This left the once-mighty party with only five seats.
History Collapse and deregistration.
On January 9, 1981, federal Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Roch LaSalle was acclaimed leader of the Union Nationale. In the April 1981 provincial election,