{"id":15645,"date":"2014-04-08T00:09:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T04:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=15645"},"modified":"2014-04-08T00:09:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T04:09:03","slug":"robert-poeti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/robert-poeti\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Poeti Re-elected in Marguerite-Bourgeoys"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Poeti\"<\/a>Robert Poeti, a former police officer of the\u00a0S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec who has been representing the\u00a0Marguerite-Bourgeoys\u00a0riding since\u00a02012 has been re-elected with more than 25,000 votes, which represents 70% of the vote.<\/p>\n

My dear LaSalle electors, thank you for having confidence in me again,\u201d he wrote on his Twitter feed later Monday evening.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Poeti went into the election with a strong profile, both provincially and locally. As the official opposition critic for public security, he\u2019s spent the last year commenting about the Charbonneau Commission, young offenders and the Beno\u00eet Roberge arrest. Locally, he\u2019s popular with the local Greek and Italian communities and has spoken at various community organization functions since he was elected to represent the riding.<\/p>\n

The voter turnout in Marguerite-Bourgeoys, which has voted Liberal in provincial elections since the riding was created in 1965, was an all-time high of 72%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Poeti, a former police officer of the\u00a0S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec who has been representing the\u00a0Marguerite-Bourgeoys\u00a0riding since\u00a02012 has been re-elected with more than 25,000 votes, which represents 70% of the vote. My dear LaSalle electors, thank you for having confidence in me again,\u201d he wrote on his Twitter feed later Monday evening. Poeti went into the […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[259,258,257,260],"class_list":["post-15645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-marguerite-bourgeoys","tag-re-elected","tag-robert-poeti","tag-vote","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-44l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":989,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/marguerite-bourgeoys\/","url_meta":{"origin":15645,"position":0},"title":"Marguerite-Bourgeoys Riding: Quebec 2012","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"September 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"After performing well in the local debate, Robert Po\u00ebti easily won the Marguerite-Bourgeoys riding for the Liberals with 19,993 votes or 38.83% of the total eligible vote in the riding. 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