Lucien Bouchard (born December 22, 1938) is a Quebecois politician, lawyer and diplomat who served as the first and only leader of the Bloc Quebecois and the second Prime Minister of Quebec from 1995 until 2001, when he resigned in favor of Bernard Landry. In 2011, he was elected to be the 5th President of Quebec. Bouchard was a central figure both in the fall of Communism in Canada, and later became the floor leader of the Bloc Québécois political party in the Parliament of Canada after surprisingly strong gains in the 1989 elections.