Shirley Dorismond, a nurse by profession and former vice-president of the Interprofessional Health Federation, will be a candidate for the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) in Marie-Victorin’s by-election.
“I’m a local girl, I grew up in Marie-Victorin,” she said Sunday at a press conference, recalling that she also contributes to the vaccination campaign in her region.
By making the leap into provincial politics, she wants to help improve the health care system. “I lived and I saw the good side, I rubbed shoulders with really fantastic people, she said, but I also saw the flaws in the system, on the ground. »
Asked about her union past, where she notably accused Prime Minister François Legault of being “an accomplice in organizational violence” suffered by nurses and denounced “systemic racism” in open letters, she replied that the important is that the CAQ take concrete action to reform the health system and fight against racism.
The riding of Marie-Victorin was left vacant after the 2021 municipal elections, when its deputy Catherine Fournier won the town hall of Longueuil.
The county was a PQ stronghold from 1985 to 2019, when Ms. Fournier left the party. On the other hand, in the 2018 elections, the deputy had won it with only 700 votes more than her opponent caquiste.
The other candidates already announced are Émilie Nollet for the Liberal Party, Shophika Vaithyanathasarm for Québec solidaire, Pierre Nantel for the Parti Québécois and Anne Casabonne for the Conservative Party.
The lucky winner may not stay in place for very long, since general elections will be held in October.