predecessor successor children birth_place party profession office birth_date order term_start spouse image article_title term_end name alma_mater
andré boisclair jean allaire albert côté pauline marois sylvie roy -lrb- interim -rrb- jean d'amour angela charles juliette cacouna , quebec , canada parti action démocratique du québec -lrb- 1994-2009 -rrb- libéral du québec -lrb- 1985 -- 1994 -rrb- television presenter mna for rivière-du-loup 19 may 1970 leader the adq of the opposition -lrb- quebec -rrb- leader of march 26 , 2007 1994 september 12 , 1994 marie-claude barrette mariodumont.jpg mario dumont
 november 6 , 2009 5 , 2008 march 6 , 2009 march mario dumont concordia university -lrb- a.b. -rrb- university of montreal
mario dumont

mario dumont -lrb- born may 19 , 1970 , in saint-georges-de-cacouna , quebec -rrb- is a television personality and former politician in quebec , canada .
he was a member of the national assembly of quebec -lrb- mna -rrb- , and the leader of the action démocratique du québec -lrb- adq -rrb- , from 1994 to 2009 .
after the 2007 quebec election , dumont obtained the post of leader of the opposition in the national assembly .
following his party 's poor showing in the 2008 quebec election , he announced his resignation as adq leader , and subsequently joined the television network v to host a daily news and talk show , `` dumont '' , which began in 2009 .
he left that network in 2012 to join the all-news channel lcn .
