(Quebec) Second in the Quebec region according to the polls, the Conservative Party of Quebec presents a former municipal councilor of Lévis, Mario Fortier, to face the caquiste Martine Biron, ex-political analyst at Radio-Canada, in Chutes-de -Boiler.
Posted at 12:13 p.m.
Conservative leader Éric Duhaime argued Monday that his training stands out by presenting a “rooted candidate” in Lévis while the Coalition avenir Québec “parachutes a journalist from Sillery”.
Mr. Duhaime, a resident of Quebec, had considered running in Chutes-de-la-Chaudière to finally choose Chauveau, in the northern suburbs of the capital.
Mario Fortier was a municipal councilor in Lévis from 2009 to 2021. He was the only member of Mayor Gilles Lehouillier’s team to experience defeat last fall. He chaired the Société de transport de Lévis from 2017 to 2021.
Éric Duhaime recalled that Martine Biron had many reservations last year about the Legault government’s Quebec-Lévis tunnel project. On Radio-Canada, she called him “retrograde” and “electoralist”, adding that he “costs the eyes of the head” and that “there will surely be overruns”. She suggested using the money to carry out other projects.
Prime Minister François Legault must officially announce the candidacy of Mme Biron Wednesday.
The current MP for Chutes-de-la-Chaudière, caquiste Marc Picard, announced earlier this summer that he will not seek another mandate. He had been elected continuously since 2003, first under the banner of the Action Démocratique du Québec.