Photo: Jacques Boissinot The Canadian Press Antoine Dionne Charest at the Quebec Liberal Party general council in Drummondville, October 2023
Benoit Valois-Nadeau
Published at 15:06 Updated at 16:00
- Québec
Antoine Dionne Charest, son of former Premier Jean Charest, intends to run under the banner of the Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ) in the next provincial elections.
Mr. Dionne Charest, who has been active in the PLQ for several years, made the announcement during an interview on LCN on Monday.
“I would like to be a candidate in the next election. Like many young people in Quebec, I love Quebec, I love Quebec politics and I think we could do better, economically, on identity and the Constitution. “I would like to be a candidate in 2026,” he said while he was there to defend the Liberal project for a Quebec Constitution.
A PLQ spokesperson confirmed to Devoir that Mr. Dionne Charest fully intends to run for the PLQ in the next election.
In an interview with LCN, Mr. Dionne Charest did not want to say which riding he will run for in the provincial election to be held on October 5, 2026.
In addition to being president of the firm ADC Conseil and a political commentator, Antoine Dionne Charest is a member of the Committee on the Revival of the Quebec Liberal Party and vice-president of the party’s National Political Commission, which forms the first opposition in the National Assembly.
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