In a message published Tuesday morning on social networks, Quebec Liberal Party MP Marwah Rizqy announced that she will not seek a new mandate in the next provincial elections, scheduled for 2026.
“After careful consideration, I have made my decision. This current mandate will be my last,” wrote on This decision, she specifies, is “final and without appeal”.
“Why now? Because there’s never a good time to bow out. By announcing [ma décision] Today, my party and the next leader will have time to find a candidate totally dedicated to the people of Saint-Laurent. »
Marwah Rizqy underlines in her message that she and her partner, the Liberal MP for Jacques-Cartier, Gregory Kelley, faced an “obstacle course” to manage to have their children, Gabriel and Abraham.
“Today, every Monday, when I take the train towards Quebec, my heart [serre]. I want to fully live my role as a mother. I want to be able to be in the same city as my young children and be able to tuck them in at night. »
Leaving the children without parents every weekday to go to Quebec, she says, has become “too great a sacrifice”.
“Greg offered to leave so I could continue to serve. I refused,” adds Marwah Rizqy. “In 2026, Gabriel will already be four years old and will enter primary school the following year. Abraham will join him a year later. They’re growing so fast already…I can no longer contemplate being a part-time mom who sleeps three or four nights a week away from them. I want to be fully present for them. »
In his message, Mme Rizqy says he “smiled” when reading the article published in Duty Monday from the pen of Marco Fortier. She argued that “the day she feels [it] that she can no longer adequately play both her role as chosen one and her role as mother, she will choose [it] his family. Without hesitation.”
October 1, 2018. It was yesterday. It was also a lifetime ago.
The young elected official that I was has become a young mother. I lived each mandate as if it were the only one. This perhaps also explains my irreverent side.
Reading Marco Fortier’s article, I smiled.…
— Marwah Rizqy (@marwahrizqy) October 1, 2024
The MP still takes the opportunity to send a “message to young women: it is possible to have it all and I consider I have had it all! Yes yes ! I allowed myself to dream and above all, to believe in it.”
Until my departure, “I will continue my work with the same rigor and vivacity as you know me,” assures the MP, who says she is filled with an “immense feeling of gratitude” for “what has been a great collective, intellectual and civic adventure.”
More details will follow.