Maka Kotto was born on December 7,1961 and is a Cameroonian-born Canadian politician.
13 Facts About Maka Kotto
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Maka Kotto was a Parti Quebecois member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Bourget.
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Maka Kotto studied law, politics, dramatic art and cinema in Nanterre, Bordeaux and Paris.
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Maka Kotto appeared in the 1989 movie How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired, based on the novel by Dany Laferriere.
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Maka Kotto appeared in a second film in 2000, Lumumba, starring as Joseph Kasa-Vubu.
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Maka Kotto was an educator in dramatic art for nearly 15 years in France and Quebec.
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Maka Kotto was elected to the House of Commons of Canada, representing the Bloc Quebecois in the 2004 Canadian federal election.
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Maka Kotto was re-elected two years later, winning a comfortable, but reduced, popular vote and a much larger plurality in the 2006 Canadian federal election.
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Maka Kotto defeated five other candidates to win his second term in office.
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On November 12,2007, Maka Kotto announced that he would be the candidate for the Parti Quebecois in the provincial riding of Bourget in Montreal to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of former PQ house leader Diane Lemieux.
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Maka Kotto resigned his seat in House of Commons of Canada on March 5,2008, in order to run in the provincial by-election.
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Maka Kotto's vacancy was officially recognized by the Speaker on March 13,2008.
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Maka Kotto was re-elected in the 2014 Quebec election with a smaller margin, but the Parti Quebecois government of Pauline Marois was defeated and Maka Kotto became a member of the Official Opposition caucus.