Even if she gives up her place as co-spokesperson for Québec solidaire (QS), Manon Massé will be a member of parliament for a long time to come, she promised Sunday to the activists of her training. And it’s “quite in [son] intention” to be on the starting line in the 2026 elections.
The elected representative of Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques participated this weekend in her last national council as co-spokesperson, after six years in this role. She will be replaced in November, during the solidarity congress in Gatineau.
If the day of Saturday had been mainly devoted to the succession – three candidates are in the rows to replace the current female co-spokesperson of the formation – that of Sunday was the occasion for the delegates to salute the years Mass.
“I’m not going away,” said the member during a speech to members in solidarity, on a stage at the Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe. “I still have the fire, the flame, which burns within me. If anyone was expecting a farewell speech, you were wrong. »
The former community organizer, who “never believed that one day she would be a spokesperson, [et qui n’aurait] never thought of being an aspiring prime minister either [ou] hold three leaders’ debates, including one in english has pledged to devote herself more than ever to her constituency.
Accelerated by journalists in the minutes following her speech, she assured that her passing of the baton at the head of QS did not mean that she would leave politics once she arrived at the general election of 2026. my intention [de me représenter]. Three years is a long way in politics, especially at sixty, but that’s my intention,” she said.