Quebec Liberal Party | Who could succeed Dominique Anglade?

As soon as the announcement of Dominique Anglade’s departure from political life – and even in the last few days – names have been circulating to take the lead of the Liberal Party of Quebec. Overview.

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Pierre Moreau

The question has been circulating since the announcement of his departure from the show Politics buffs, at the end of the last television season: will Pierre Moreau be in the next Liberal Party leadership race? Now that Dominique Anglade has announced that she is leaving politics, Mr. Moreau would not comment when asked the question on Monday. Former deputy from 2003 to 2007 in the riding of Marguerite-D’Youville, on the South Shore (now part of the riding of Montarville), Mr. Moreau returned to politics after a defeat in 2007 by being elected since 2008 in Châteauguay. He served in the Charest government as Chief Government Whip and Minister of Transport, among others. Under Philippe Couillard, Mr. Moreau was at the head of several departments, including Municipal Affairs, Public Security, Energy and Natural Resources and as President of the Treasury Board. He now works for a law firm.

André Fortin

Elected since 2014, former Minister of Transport in the Couillard government, the name of the MP for the riding of Pontiac, in Outaouais, is on everyone’s lips. In recent days, he had not publicly supported Dominique Anglade at the worst of the storm that shook his leadership. On Monday, on the road back from vacation, he broke the silence by saluting the “woman of heart” who leaves her party “with her head held high”. During the last leadership race of the party, in 2019, André Fortin did not run to become leader, after months of reflection. He had claimed that leading a rebuilding party would have a “monstrous impact” on his family life. Before becoming a Member of Parliament, Mr. Fortin worked and campaigned in the past for the Liberal Party of Quebec and for the Liberal Party of Canada.

Marc Tanguay

Member of Parliament for the riding of LaFontaine, in Montreal, since 2012, Marc Tanguay was deputy parliamentary leader of the government of Philippe Couillard from 2016 to 2018. Since the Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ) formed the government in 2018, he has held various duties as official opposition critic for justice, families and the economy. A lawyer by training, Mr. Tanguay has acted since the defeat of the Liberals on October 3 as parliamentary leader. It is he who negotiates these days for the official opposition in the National Assembly in order to establish the budgets and the speaking times of the parties for the duration of the present legislature.

Alain Rayes

The current MP for the riding of Richmond-Arthabaska (which straddles the Centre-du-Québec and Estrie regions), Alain Rayes, says he wants to finish his political mandate in Ottawa before opening his horizons other forms of political engagement. Mr. Rayes supported former Liberal Prime Minister Jean Charest in the last leadership race of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC). Since the election of new Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, he has left his party’s caucus and sits as an independent member of the House of Commons. When parliament returned to Ottawa last September, Mr. Rayes said that doing politics as an independent was “extremely difficult” and that he was not ruling out, one day, joining a party. politics on the federal scene or in Quebec.

Francois-Philippe Champagne and Joel Lightbound

The names of two federal Liberal MPs who sit with Justin Trudeau are circulating in Quebec. Asked about his intentions in provincial politics, the Member of Parliament for the riding of Saint-Maurice–Champlain, in Mauricie, and Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, François-Philippe Champagne, replied that he “s ‘was waiting for the question’. “I love what I do and it’s going well. That’s the answer, as I said, it’s going well, and we still have a lot of things to do. We are in the process of rebuilding the Canadian industry, so we still have a lot of challenges ahead of us and things are going well,” he said. His colleague in the Liberal caucus in Ottawa, Joël Lightbound, also caught the eye. MP for the federal riding of Louis-Hébert, in Quebec, Mr. Lightbound ceased to chair the Quebec caucus of the Liberal Party of Canada (PLC) last winter after being critical of the management of the health crisis by his political party. .

Denis Coderre

The former mayor of Montreal Denis Coderre, who failed in his attempt to dislodge Valérie Plante at the head of the metropolis during the last municipal elections, in the fall of 2021, could he be tempted by the leadership of the PLQ? According to a poll conducted by the firm Léger, published Monday by TVA, one “Liberal sympathizer in five”, or 17% of respondents, considers that Mr. Coderre would be the best placed to replace Dominique Anglade. Since his electoral defeat for mayor of Montreal, the man who was a federal Liberal MP in the riding of Bourassa from 1997 to 2013 joined the radio station 91.9 Sports as a columnist. He did not respond to messages from The Press Monday.

With the collaboration of Julien Arsenault, The Press