Journalist and political analyst on Parliament Hill Martine Biron takes sides. The public information channel has announced that she will make the leap as a candidate for the CAQ in the riding of Chutes-de-la-Chaudière, signing the end of her media career at Radio-Canada.
She will therefore take the place of the Caquiste deputy Marc Picard during the elections of October 3. He had announced a few hours earlier that he did not intend to stand for re-election.
The duty confirmed the news to a source familiar with the matter. According to our information, Ms. Biron had been approached several times by the party of François Legault, expressing her refusal each time. A final approach made him change course.
Martine Biron covered politics for several years. In her most recent article dated June 21, 2022, she claimed that the CAQ’s satisfaction rate “rivals Soviet scores” and that François Legault was “virtually certain of being re-elected”.
She was then critical of “flaws” in the party caucus, which she said had been exposed by party federalists when Bernard Drainville was announced as a candidate. She also pointed to the “arrogance” emanating from the CAQ caucus of Quebec, while qualifying the Ministers of Transport, Economy, Family and Forests as “blunderers”.
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