Montgomery launches new party
Sue Montgomery has launched a new municipal party in Côte-des-Neiges-NDG. It’s not unusual to have borough-specific parties but I don’t believe CDN-NDG has had one before.
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Ant6n 15:11 on 2021-03-11 Permalink
This sounds like it’s not a political party. A party itself must follow democratic principles, candidates must be selected by members. How will this work in this case? Parties must exist as long term political institutions, how will this work if it’s „Sues Party“.
Not dismissing her struggles with PM, but these one-off structures centered around a political candidate really need to go away.
Kate 18:39 on 2021-03-11 Permalink
Our municipal parties don’t tend to have the object persistence of federal or provincial ones. Look at recent Montreal history: the once dominant Civic Party is gone, the Montreal Citizens’ Movement is gone, Coalition Montreal rose and fell, Vrai Changement had a moment or two between 2013 and 2017 but doesn’t hold a single seat now, and then there are parties like the Lachine, Outremont and Anjou parties that restrict their interest to a single borough. There’s a list of defunct municipal parties on this Wikipedia page.
Montgomery is laying the ground for a run for the mayoralty of CDN-NDG – she may or not not succeed in attracting others to run for council positions along with her. It’s not unusual for parties to form around a dominant figure, but then fizzle out when that figure dies or moves on.
ant6n 18:48 on 2021-03-11 Permalink
It’s not unusual. But it’s not democratic. Parties are in some sense set up to undermine democratic processes – so parties need to be set up according to democratic structures. One possible test is whether a party is set up to exist permanently (as opposed to being constructed for a one-off issue or a particular person) – but they don’t necessarily have to actually exist longterm, because they can still die quickly if not succesful.