(Québec) As recently as January 4, the Liberal candidate in the riding of Orford, the former mayor of Magog Vicki-May Hamm, courted the Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ) in order to wear her colors in the elections. fall general. She even said that the Legault government had managed the health crisis “brilliantly”.
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“When I consider my future, I see myself on your team,” she wrote to the CAQ on January 4, in an email obtained by The Press.
She wanted to run in Orford even though the riding is already represented by a CAQ member, Gilles Bélanger. She said that she had a meeting on this subject with Mr. Bélanger, suggesting that the latter would be ready to give up his place to her.
“Despite all the offers I have, some very bizarre, what motivates me the most is working with the CAQ,” added Ms.me Hamm, who left the town hall of Magog at the end of his mandate last fall.
This is not the first time that she has courted the CAQ. 98.5 FM revealed this week that she had written to the group on November 21 to propose her candidacy for the elections.
The CAQ “joins it more”
“You will be told that I am solicited by the Liberals and it is true”, but “the CAQ joins me more in my values and convictions”, affirmed Mme Hamm in this previous email. Running under the CAQ banner was, she insisted, her “first choice” for her professional future.
She is still a member of François Legault’s party. She joined the CAQ in 2019 for a period of five years.
She changed her mind recently
The leader of the Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ), Dominique Anglade, unveiled the candidacy of Ms.me Hamm Monday. The latter maintained that her “liberal roots go back a long way”.
The candidate later admitted that she had already wanted to run for the CAQ, but added that she had changed her mind recently.
Gilles Bélanger confirmed at the end of January that he would seek a second term.
The political shopping of Mme Hamm recalls that of Gertrude Bourdon in 2018. A week before running as a candidate under the liberal banner, she said she was ready to “make history” with the CAQ in an exchange of text messages with the right arm of François Legault, Martin Koskinen. She had had discussions with him and Mr. Legault with a view to becoming a candidate for their training before suddenly giving up on them to join the PLQ.