Michel Prescott

Michel Prescott is a Canadian politician and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec.

City Councillor

He was a member of the progressive Montreal Citizens' Movement, also known as Rassemblement des citoyens et citoyennes de Montréal (RCM) in French. He was elected to Montreal's City Council in 1982 against Civic incumbent Sidney Stevens in the district of Jeanne-Mance. He was re-elected in 1986, 1990, 1994 and 1998. He sat as an Independent from September 1992 until 1997.

Party Leader

In 1998 he lost the RCM nomination for the mayoral election against Thérèse Daviau.^[1] But soon after, Daviau left the party and announced that she would support Jacques Duchesneau for Mayor.^[2] Prescott took over as RCM nominee and Leader of the Opposition.

Deputy Chairmanship

In the wake of the province-wide Municipal Merger of 2001, the MCM formally merged the Union des citoyens et des citoyennes de l’Île de Montréal of Gérald Tremblay.

Prescott was re-elected to the City Council under the new party in 2001 and he was immediately appointed Deputy Chairman of Montreal's Executive Committee.

In the 2009 Montreal municipal election, Prescott was defeated by Nimâ Machouf of Projet Montréal, co-candidate for mayoral candidate Richard Bergeron, who assumed the city council seat.

Footnotes

1. ^ Thérèse Daviau élue chef du RCM, Radio-Canada, March 29, 1998
2. ^ Thérèse Daviau quitte le RCM, Radio-Canada, April 27, 1998

Political offices
Preceded by Sidney Stevens (Civic Party)	City Councillor, District of Jeanne-Mance 1982-2009	Succeeded by Richard Bergeron

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Name	Prescott, Michel
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