The mayor of Longueuil, Catherine Fournier, will address the media Thursday morning to take stock of her political future.
The elected official announced Wednesday evening an “important press conference” which will take place at 10:30 a.m. in a location that remains to be determined.
The former Parti Québécois MP made the leap into municipal politics in 2021, handily winning the Longueuil town hall in 2021, at the age of 29.
She won the election with 61.3% of the votes, far ahead of her rivals.
Previously, Catherine Fournier had been a federal candidate for the Bloc Québécois in 2015. The following year, she was elected provincially, during a by-election in the riding of Marie-Victorin, left vacant by the resignation by Bernard Drainville.
At the age of 24, she became the youngest deputy in the history of the National Assembly.
Re-elected in 2018 with only a little more than 700 votes ahead of Martyne Prévost, of the CAQ, Catherine Fournier was one of the 10 survivors from her party and the only one in the metropolitan region.
A few months later, on March 11, 2019, the MP announced that she was leaving the Parti Québécois to sit as an independent. In spring 2021, she indicated her desire to be a candidate for mayor of Longueuil.
In April 2023, the mayor lifted the publication ban protecting her identity in the sexual assault trial against PQ MP Harold LeBel, revealing at the same time that she had been a victim of the fallen politician.
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