Lavoie joins Coderre camp
Guillaume Lavoie, who was narrowly defeated by Valérie Plante in 2016 to head Projet, has joined Denis Coderre and will try for the borough mayoralty of Villeray‑St‑Michel‑Park Ex in November.
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ant6n 07:31 on 2021-04-28 Permalink
So does that mean Coderre appointed him candidate, or is he running inside Ensemble to be selected the candidate?
Kate 09:32 on 2021-04-28 Permalink
Radio-Canada also has the story, albeit with slightly conditional verbs at the top.
I suspect they met and Lavoie said he’d run for Coderre but not as a lowly councillor, only if a borough mayoralty was offered to him, and they’ve decided to crown him in VSMPE, where Giuliana Fumagalli, initially elected with Projet, was punted out of the party some time back. I don’t know what her odds of getting re-elected are like this time around but Coderre may have decided they’re not good.
Notice also here that Coderre will be jilting Anie Samson, who was borough mayor for several terms before being unseated by Projet, and might well have expected to be invited back by Coderre.
DeWolf 10:45 on 2021-04-28 Permalink
Wasn’t Samson one of the few Ensemble people who was critical of Coderre’s imperious return to the party?
ant6n 10:59 on 2021-04-28 Permalink
Guilllaume Lavoie is kind of funny. He keeps posting pictures of various cufflinks on twitter. So he also used cufflinks to announce he’s gone to the dark side: https://twitter.com/glavoie_mtl/status/1387414163232894980
Kate 11:11 on 2021-04-28 Permalink
DeWolf, Samson expressed mixed feelings not long after Coderre’s launch on TLMEP: “Samson […] se réjouit du retour de Denis Coderre dans l’arène municipale. Mais elle émet quand même quelques doutes quant à la transformation réelle de l’ancien maire.”