The mayor of Longueuil invited the media for an “important” press conference, to “ [faire] an update on his political future.
Posted at 6:37 p.m.
Updated at 7:12 p.m.
The announcement will be made Thursday around 10:30 a.m., at a location to be determined. His press secretary, Caroline Macret, and his chief of staff, Louis-Philip Prévost, did not wish to give more details on this subject.
Mme Fournier has been mayor of Longueuil since 2021. Following the announcement of Valérie Plante’s departure, she confided, in an open letter published in La Presse: “To be honest, although in great shape, I myself have had this reflection this summer, following storm Debby.
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“In my opinion, high-level elected positions should ideally not be held for more than ten years,” she added. “By becoming too comfortable in a role, we necessarily lose the desire to take risks by innovating. It’s human. »
After failing in the 2015 federal elections as a candidate for the Bloc Québécois in Montarville, Mme Fournier was elected MP for the Marie-Victorin constituency in the 2016 by-elections, under the banner of the Parti Québécois. At only 24 years old, she becomes the youngest female deputy in the history of the National Assembly of Quebec. In 2019, she left the Parti Québécois caucus to sit as an independent MP.
In 2021, she was elected mayor of Longueuil under the banner of a new party, Coalition Longueuil. At the same time, she becomes both the youngest mayor to be elected in this city, as well as the youngest mayor elected in a large city in Quebec.
