Dominic Anglade, president of the PLQ, is leaving the leadership and deputy role.

Dominic Anglet Bowing under the weight of “internal machinations”, he resigned from the leadership Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ). Former caucus members are urging the party to find a “unifying” and “encouraging” interim leader.

He told Rafael Ferraro, president of the PLQ, who then made the announcement early Monday afternoon at a hotel in the riding of Saint-Henri-Sainte-Anne, which he has represented in the National Assembly since 2015.

“Demographic, cultural, socio-economic and environmental issues are too important to tear down the official opposition,” the former deputy prime minister declared before two fleur-de-lis. “Quebec’s Liberal Party must renew its political opportunity and its way of doing politics, and not have the luxury of being undermined by internal machinations that have nothing to do with Quebecers,” he added.

Many of her advisers—current and former—are scattered around her in a conference room at the Alt Hotel. Her husband and three children were sitting in the front row. As soon as her statement was over, they carried her in their arms and accompanied her outside.

Dominic Anglade will be the Vice-Chancellor until the 1st^R December will allow him to close some “block files” and salute the local cast he has worked with for the past seven years, it explained. want.

Therefore, the voters of Saint-Henri-Sainte-Anne will go to the polls again in the summer of 2023. In fact, the Council of Ministers has to pass the mandate to hold by-elections. […] Not later than six months from the vacancy”, i.e. 1^R June 2023.

“Close a Chapter”

Dominique Anglade won “his” election in Sainte-Henri-Sainte-Anne on October 3 with a majority of 2,700 votes (36% of the vote), beating lawyer Guillaume Clich-Rivard. Unity Quebec (28% votes). Political liaison Nicholas Hart-Isabel (A future Quebec alliance) finished the competition in third place (18%).

But the Liberal leader would not have come to the confidence vote.

Last month, the PLQ won its worst result by universal suffrage in its more than 150-year history, with 14.37% of the vote, ahead of Québec solidaire and the Parti Québécois. The Liberal caucus found itself cut by 10 elected officials compared to 2018 (it went from 31 to 21).

And things quickly turned sour. After saying in an interview Duty ThatShe intends to ask her members “quickly” if they still support herLiberal leader and former government minister Philippe Couillard Vaudreuil MP Mary-Claude Nicholls found herself at the center of a storm when she decided to drop transport-related files from her caucus in the Liberal shadow cabinet.

Last week, M.^me Anglade admits the story has gone “too far,” but she Couldn’t get the MP to sit next to him In official opposition. Several former party leaders – Liz Theriault, Cayden Barrett and Lucie Charlebois, among others—who, at the time, expressed doubts about his ability to collect.

“Since October 3, I have taken the results to heart and like many, I am disappointed,” said Ms.^me England on Monday. She “then embarked on a personal reflection, which is normal,” at the end of which she decided to “close a very rich chapter. [sa] life and [d’]Start a new one.”

According to former Liberal minister Pierre Arcand, “that’s the right thing to do”. “There was a lot of discontent. […] Before the elections, we had some financial problems and we also had problems memberetc., etc.”, he raised on the other end of the line.

On Monday morning, Rafael Ferraro noted that “the executive committee of the PLQ will meet urgently and be appointed without delay, with the agreement of the caucus of Liberal representatives sitting in the National Assembly of Quebec, the interim confirming member.” According to tradition, the elected interim leader does not seek permanent leadership thereafter, but the party’s laws and regulations or the constitution do not specify anything.

At least, says Pierre Arcand, who was interim president for a year and a half from 2018 to 2020, “there are still a lot of new people”. “I, when I became interim president, I had to manage former ministers who were not happy about failure,” he noted, adding that Mr.^me Anglade is a “good motivator”.

“dispersion”

Seated with former MP David Birnbaum, M^me “I was saddened,” said Anglade, who was in the official opposition during the last legislature[é] She was unable to continue her work on Monday. “It doesn’t surprise me,” he admitted in an interview Duty. But […] I think he deserves to be the leader as he has faced difficult situations throughout our mandate [à la reconstruction] of the QLP. »

“Obviously, many of my liberal colleagues disagree,” he continued, while M.^me Anglet was taken “in his future” by “many former colleagues”.

Employed by M.^me Elected on October 3 under Anglade and his leadership, the member for Bourassa-Sauvé, Madwa-Nika Cadet, did not hide his disappointment either, She came to her employer’s defense in the middle of last week. “It’s always overwhelming,” he said. Watching her close a chapter, on a human level, sure does what it does to me. »

Prime Minister Francois Legault He praised the “commitment and dedication” shown by M on Monday^me Anglade throughout his political career. “It takes courage to enter politics. Being in politics requires determination. Quitting requires humility,” he tweeted.

The Liberal Party is under the leadership of Dominic Anglehead Very short in the history of political formation. It will stop in 910 days. In Liberal history, only two other leaders have been elected Prime Minister: Georges-Emile LaPalme (2933 days in office) and Claude Ryan (1578).

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