{"id":1270,"date":"2012-11-20T12:08:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T17:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2012-11-20T15:18:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T20:18:16","slug":"laval-city-council-in-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/laval-city-council-in-turmoil\/","title":{"rendered":"Laval City Council in Turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"

The goings on in Laval City Council have been hard to follow.<\/p>\n

The Latest:<\/h1>\n

A\u00a0race to become mayor will happen after all. The Gazette and the CBC\u00a0has reported that Alexandre Duplessis and Jacques St-Jean will compete for mayor.<\/p>\n

To read the story, refer to http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/news\/Next+mayor+Laval+city+councillors+headtohead\/7583814\/story.html<\/a><\/p>\n

The former party offices are also currently being raided.<\/p>\n

Prior to the\u00a0latest:<\/h1>\n
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In half an hour, those running for Mayor in Laval must announce their candidacy.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, yesterday all 20 councillors who were in the\u00a0Parti PRO (Parti du Ralliement Officiel )des Lavallois – \u00c9quipe Vaillancourt <\/em>resigned from the party to sit as independents.<\/p>\n

Once the party is officially\u00a0dissolved,\u00a0Radio-Canada says that the\u00a0$950,000 that the party has will be turned\u00a0over to the City of Laval.<\/p>\n

Radio Canada also says that\u00a0Basile Angelopoulos will not run for mayor, but that\u00a0councillor Alexandre Duplessis is expected to seek the position.<\/p>\n

Prior to that:<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

Laval City Councillors had until 4:30 p.m. on Monday, November 13 to submit their candidacy for mayor.<\/p>\n

Basile Angelopoulos was the only person who submitted his name, but he withdrew it after municipal affairs minister Sylvain Gaudreault decided to appoint a special auditor to oversee the city until the election next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy candidacy has been withdrawn,” said Angelopoulos to CBC reporters at 7:30 p.m. Monday night. \u201cI no longer know what type of mayor I would be in the new context that the minister has created.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to a press release distributed by Gaudreault\u2019s office, the auditor will oversee all aspects of Laval administration, especially public service contracts and real estate transactions. An initial report is due by mid-January.<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil the next election a year from now, the population of Quebec needs to have confidence in its municipal institutions,\u201d said Gaudreault. \u201cI want to assure them that concrete actions are and will be taken so that we will emerge stronger when this crisis is over.\u201d<\/p>\n

The impetus:<\/h1>\n

Just after Mayor Gilles Vaillancourt resigned on Friday, November 9 (see http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/laval-mayor-gilles-vaillancourt\/<\/a>), Claire Le Bel, who was elected Laval city councillor for Concorde-Bois-de-Boulogne in 2009, announced that she would leave the Parti PRO (Parti du Ralliement Officiel )des Lavallois – \u00c9quipe Vaillancourt <\/em>to run as an independent.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not M. Vaillancourt that I wish to disassociate from, but the party in its entirety, no matter who leads it, whatever it\u2019s called.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI realized last week that I didn\u2019t have a choice,\u201d she said. \u201cI can no longer support the profound malaise and inaction. It\u2019s impossible for me to keep my head up when I run into the Lavallois who elected me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Le Bel was absent from the council meeting held Monday, November 11. She has not yet been authorized as an independent candidate by the Director General of Quebec Elections so she may yet join one of the other two authorized political parties in Laval, the Mouvement lavallois <\/em>or the Parti au service du citoyen<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The goings on in Laval City Council have been hard to follow. The Latest: A\u00a0race to become mayor will happen after all. The Gazette and the CBC\u00a0has reported that Alexandre Duplessis and Jacques St-Jean will compete for mayor. To read the story, refer to http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/news\/Next+mayor+Laval+city+councillors+headtohead\/7583814\/story.html The former party offices are also currently being raided. Prior […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-that-matter","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-ku","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16960,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/independent-coupal-questions-spending\/","url_meta":{"origin":1270,"position":0},"title":"Independent Coupal Questions Spending","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"January 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Newly independent councillor Jean Coupal plans to ask about wasteful spending at every city council meeting until the next election. 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