Solidarity in Quebec | Return of Haroun Bouazzi after the storm

(Quebec) The deputies of Québec solidaire (QS) are meeting in caucus on Thursday in Quebec to prepare for the start of the parliamentary term which will take place on January 28. This event also marks the return of the deputy for Maurice-Richard, Haroun Bouazzi, who was absent at the end of the last parliamentary session after making remarks which sowed controversy.

The year 2024 has not been easy for the left-wing political group. Internal crises have deviated from the message that the solidarity caucus wanted to bring to the National Assembly.

First of all, the resignation of co-spokesperson Émilise Lessard-Therrien last April shook the party and called into question the leadership of parliamentary leader Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois. He then advocates for QS to become a “government party”.

Mr. Nadeau-Dubois then managed to have the Saguenay declaration adopted, thus ratifying his “pragmatic” turn during a National Council in Jonquière in May.

But the party is not at the end of its troubles: in November, shortly before the election of its new co-spokesperson, Ruba Ghazal, Haroun Bouazzi ignited the powder by asserting that he saw “every day » in the National Assembly “the construction of this Other” whose culture “would be dangerous or inferior”.

The member for Maurice-Richard then refuses to apologize, and throws fuel on the fire during an interview on - radio. The controversy causes divisions between party activists and significant unease among supportive deputies. Haroun Bouazzi finally makes an act of contrition on the social network X.

With the poll needle moving little for the left party, QS now hopes that the internal crises are behind it so that it can concentrate on its proposals and ideas. A task which will be all the more difficult since Donald Trump’s tariff threats will continue to generate much ink.