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'''François Legault''' {{post-nominal|country=CAN|MNA}} ({{IPA-fr|fʁɑ̃.swa lə.ɡo|pron}}; born May 26, 1957) is a Canadian politician serving as the 32nd [[premier of Quebec]] since 2018. One of the founder and member of the [[Coalition Avenir Québec]] (CAQ), he has led the party since its founding in 2011. Legault sits as a [[National Assembly of Quebec|member of the National Assembly]] (MNA) for the [[Lanaudière]] region riding of [[L'Assomption (provincial electoral district)|L'Assomption]]. Legault's ongoing tenure of {{age in years and days|October 18, 2018}}
Prior to entering politics, he was the co-founder of the Canadian airline [[Air Transat]].<ref name="dgeq">{{cite web |url=http://dgeq.qc.ca/english/provincial/rapeq/political-parties-details.php?p=00084 |title=Coalition avenir Québec |work=Directeur général des élections du Québec |access-date=2012-02-04 }} {{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He was a MNA from 1998 to 2009—serving in the governments of former premiers [[Lucien Bouchard]] and [[Bernard Landry]]—as the minister of education from 1998 to 2002 and as the minister of health from 2002 to 2003. He was a member of the [[Parti Québécois]] (PQ), first elected in the [[1998 Quebec general election|1998 Quebec election]] in the riding of [[Rousseau (provincial electoral district)|Rousseau]]. He was re-elected in [[2003 Quebec general election|2003]], [[2007 Quebec general election|2007]], and [[2008 Quebec general election|2008]] but resigned his seat on June 25, 2009. He returned to the legislature following his victory in the [[2012 Quebec general election|2012 Quebec provincial election]] as the MNA for L'Assomption, a suburb of Montreal. He was reelected in [[2014 Quebec general election|2014]]. He led the CAQ to [[majority government]]s in the [[2018 Quebec general election|2018]] and [[2022 Quebec general election|2022]] provincial elections. Legault is the first premier not to be a member of the [[Quebec Liberal Party]] or the [[Parti Québécois]] (PQ) since [[Jean-Jacques Bertrand]]'s 1970 [[Union Nationale (Quebec)|Union Nationale]] government and the first to serve under at least two monarchs since [[Maurice Duplessis]].
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