PQ President Announces Candidacy for Terrebonne Riding

Photo: Jacques Boissinot The Canadian Press The president of the Parti Québécois, Catherine Gentilcore, speaks at the party's national council in Drummondville, last April.

Caroline Chatelard – The Canadian Press

Published yesterday at 10:59 p.m.

• Québec

The Parti Québécois (PQ) announced Tuesday evening who its candidate will be to replace Pierre Fitzgibbon in the seat it left vacant in the Terrebonne riding. And it is none other than the party’s president, Catherine Gentilcore.

A race for the Parti Québécois (PQ) nomination has yet to take place, but Ms. Gentilcore already has the endorsement of Paul Saint-Pierre Plamondon. The party leader will officially present her Wednesday morning, during a press briefing in Terrebonne.

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On TVA, the candidate explained that this was a logical continuation of her career, as she has been party president for nearly a year. She said she wanted to “devote herself full time” to the party’s social project and “defend independence.”

The 39-year-old business leader from Repentigny hopes to take back the riding from the Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ) now that Minister Pierre Fitzgibbon has announced his resignation.

On social media, Ms. Gentilcore said she was “really looking forward to going door-to-door,” even adding: “I can’t wait for François Legault to call this election. The people of Terrebonne have been without an MNA for 10 weeks now, it’s gone on long enough!” »

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Premier François Legault has not yet announced the call for a by-election in Terrebonne. He has six months after the departure of an MNA to do so.

Historically, Terrebonne was a virtually impregnable bastion of the Parti Québécois since the 1970s, until the arrival of Pierre Fitzgibbon. Indeed, between 1976 and 2018, Terrebonne has always been PQ, except for a brief interlude from 2007 to 2008, when the Action démocratique du Québec candidate, Mario Dumont, won the riding.

In 2018, CAQ member Pierre Fitzgibbon won the riding against the incumbent PQ member Mathieu Traversy, then was re-elected in 2022.

According to the polling aggregator Qc125, this by-election will be between the CAQ and the Parti Québécois. It also indicates that the PQ enjoys a comfortable lead in Terrebonne. The Liberals are in third place, while Québec solidaire (QS) is fourth.

The other parties have already announced their candidates running for the seat of MNA. In September, the Quebec Liberal Party announced Virginie Bouchard’s candidacy, while in October, Nadia Poirier was announced as the QS representative in this race.

With archives from Thomas Laberge