Lionel Cellier
Lionel Cellier | |
|---|---|
 Cellier in 2021 | |
| Representative for Zian-9 | |
| Assumed office September 22, 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Bene Harver |
| Vice Chair of the Progressive Party | |
| Assumed office August 28, 2019 Serving with Vivienne Toussaint and Saleem Hanoune | |
| Chair | Samia Ouyahia |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 20, 1951 Lytton, Zian, Zamastan |
| Political party | Progressive Party |
| Spouse | Aaron Betuhone (m. 1989) |
Lionel Cellier (born October 20th, 1951) is a Zamastanian activist, educator, and politician serving as the Representative for Zian's 9th district, as well as a vice-chair for the Progressive Party since 2019 alongside Vivienne Toussaint and Saleem Hanoune. He was selected by the party to run for president in the 2024 election. He also serves as the party's critic for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues, and for Environmental Concerns. Since becoming a congressman in 2018, he has introduced legislation to amend the Zamastanian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code, return federal environmental protection to the Crorre River, and lobbied the government to implement an action plan concerning the endangered Horseshoe orcas. A former criminology and political science instructor at Kelowna College, Cellier is openly gay and lives in Lytton, Zian, with his partner, Aaron Betuhone.
Cellier has served on the boards of several non-profit organizations as well as the Lytton Police Board. He is also an international human rights activist. He has worked as a policing researcher in Tasiastan, on a Christian-Muslim peace building project in Qolaysia for the International Catholic Migration Commission, and as co-coordinator of an international non-government human rights observer mission for the Artaska independence referendum in 1999.