Solidarity MP Catherine Dorion will not run for the next elections in the fall, she announced in a video posted Friday on Facebook.
Posted at 8:20 p.m.
Updated at 8:39 p.m.
The member for the Taschereau riding says she wants to bring her political experience to the fields of art and popular education. “I want to be an activist on the ground, in theaters, in bars, in books and through people,” she said. And I want to put all my time into it. »
On Twitter, the parliamentary leader and spokesperson for Québec solidaire, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, underlined the “extraordinary mission” of Catherine Dorion, as soon as she entered politics, which was to combine her work as an MP with her artistic and social commitment. . “It took someone extraordinary to take on this challenge,” he wrote. For four years, the deputy-poet of Taschereau succeeded. »
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