Former conservative minister Steven Blainey seems to be thinking more and more seriously about Lévis town hall. A request to reserve a party name was filed Monday morning with the Director General of Elections of Quebec (DGEQ): “Prospérité Lévis: Équipe Steven Blaney”.
Posted at 6:02 p.m.
The news caused a stir in the media since it was reported in the middle of the day by FM93.
The DGEQ indicated to The Press that he had received this request, but he was not able to confirm that it really came from Steven Blaney.
“We received the request this [lundi] morning, we have not yet had time to process it,” underlines Julie St-Arnaud-Drolet, spokesperson for the DGEQ.
Such a request allows a name to be reserved for a party, so that another party cannot use it or use a similar name.
Julie St-Arnaud-Drolet also specifies that submitting a name reservation request is quite common, but does not necessarily lead to a request for authorization – necessary to finance the activities of a party –, nor to the presentation of a party to an election.
In an interview given to Soleil last March, the former federal elected official confided that he was juggling “seriously” with the idea of entering the race for mayor of Lévis to succeed Mayor Gilles Lehouillier.
During the 2006 federal elections, Steven Blaney was elected deputy for the riding of Lévis—Bellechasse, since renamed Bellechasse – Les Etchemins – Lévis. It remained so until 2021.
Under the Harper government, he notably served as Minister of Veterans Affairs, then Minister of La Francophonie, before being named Canada’s Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness in 2013 – a position he retained until 2015.
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