Frantz Benjamin

Frantz Benjamin is a Canadian politician and poet, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Viau as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. He is the third vice-president of the National Assembly since 29 November 2022.

Municipal Politics

Benjamin was first elected to the Montreal City Council in 2009 defeating incumbent city councillor Soraya Martinez Ferrada.

Benjamin formerly served as a member of Montreal City Council and the chairman (Speaker) of the city council, representing the district of Saint-Michel in the borough of Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension. He was also the first black person to be speaker of the city council. Formerly associated with the Union Montreal political party, he resigned on October 30, 2012, in protest against the allegations of corruption surrounding mayor Gérald Tremblay at the Charbonneau commission hearings. He sat as an independent councillor until June 2013, when he reaffiliated with the new Équipe Denis Coderre.

Electoral record

Provincial

Municipal

Literary works

• Valkanday : pwezi, Montréal, Éditions Paroles. 2000, 48 p. ()
• Chants de mémoire, Montréal, Éditions Paroles, 2003.
• Dits d'errance, Montréal, Mémoire d'encrier, 2004, 67 p. ()
• Montréal vu par ses poètes (with Rodney Saint-Éloi). Montréal. Mémoire d'encrier, 2006. ()
• Lettres d'automne / Tanlapli. Montréal, Éditions Paroles, 2007. ()
• Mémoire d'encrier, Octobre 4 2010 ()
• Le Saint-Michel des Haïtiens : perspectives sur la trajectoire de la communauté haïtienne du Québec dans un quartier de Montréal, Montréal, Les Éditions du CIDIHCA, 2012, 186 p. ()
• Une femme à la mer, Montréal, Mémoire d'encrier, 2016, ()
• Nuit des anses pleines, Montréal, Mémoire d'encrier, 2021, 58 p. ()

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