1. Michel Moawad is a member of the Renewal Bloc in the Lebanese Parliament representing the Zgharta District.
15 Facts About Michel Moawad
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Michel Moawad is the son of the former President of the Lebanese Republic, Rene Moawad.
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Michel Moawad attended school at the College Notre Dame de Jamhour, graduating in 1990 and obtaining the French Baccalaureate with honors.
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Michel Moawad then attended the Lycee prive Sainte-Genevieve Preparatory School for Grandes ecoles in Versailles and graduated from the Ecole superieure de commerce de Paris.
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Michel Moawad obtained a master's degree in Public Law from the Sorbonne University in Paris.
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Michel Moawad is the founder and president of the Independence Movement, a sovereigntist, reformist, secular and socio-liberal political party, launched in 2005.
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Michel Moawad was actively involved in several key movements that paved the way towards the 2005 Cedar Revolution.
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Michel Moawad was a founding member of the Qornet Shehwan Gathering, a political opposition grouping formed in 2001, which was the primary opposition force to the Syrian hegemony in Lebanon.
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In 2013, the Parliamentary Elections were postponed to 2018, and Michel Moawad underwent various attempts to politically ally with several parties in the hope to limit his opponents growing public influence, which were finally represented in the 2018 Elections where Michel Moawad came in 2nd in Zgharta District, and his party, the Independence Movement, cemented itself as the 4th largest power in the North 3 electoral sector, allied with The Free Patriotic Movement.
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Michel Moawad was part of the FPM bloc until late 2019 when he was seen as an independent MP when he named Nawaf Salam unlike the rest of the bloc that named Hassan Diab.
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Michel Moawad resigned from parliament in protest following the Beirut explosion on 4 August 2020, and is today a leading figure and founding member of the Lebanese Opposition Front.
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Michel Moawad is a founding member and current executive director of the Rene Michel Moawad Foundation.
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Furthermore, RMF has a US based sister NGO, which Michel Moawad participated in founding.
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Michel Moawad is a board member of the Maronite Foundation in the World.
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Michel Moawad is married to Marielle Kosremelli and is a father of 4 children.