{"id":3073,"date":"2013-11-04T11:09:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T16:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2013-11-04T11:09:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T16:09:59","slug":"denis-coderre-montreal-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/denis-coderre-montreal-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Municipal Monday: Denis Coderre New Montreal Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his first speech as mayor-elect, Denis Coderre spoke about his plans to fight for any Montrealer who needs him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will be the mayor of all Montrealers, ALL Montrealers. I\u2019m going to make sure that I will be their leader. I\u2019m going to make sure that in any occasion, I\u2019m going to stand for any Montrealer who needs services, who faces injustices or who faces discrimination\u2026I\u2019m going to be there for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also spoke about his plans to clean up city hall, in part by encouraging city employees to speak out about injustices.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to make sure that we do all that we can do to make sure that this city will works again, and I feel that the employees will be part of that solution, so I\u2019m sending a message, I\u2019m going to be there for you too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Coderre\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Wearing a red poppy on his lapel to signify his support for veterans just ahead of Remembrance Day next week, Montreal’s mayor-elect also spoke about his pact to defend all Montrealers, whether they voted for him or not.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to forget all personal attacks\u2026 we\u2019re going to work with ideas today\u2026even adversaries won\u2019t be adversaries for me, today\u2026we are all Montrealers.\u201d<\/p>\n

With a minority of seats on city council, Coderre will need support of other councillors, whether from Projet Montreal or the Vrai changement pour Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n

The final count wasn\u2019t yet completed when I posted this, but with 4,358 out of 4,539 polls reporting, Coderre received 32% of the vote. M\u00e9lanie Joly got 26.5% and Richard Bergeron got 25.7%.<\/p>\n

Even with a clear four-way race, municipal politics still failed to engage most Montrealers. Only 41.33% of the people who had the right to vote chose to do so. There were 455,496 votes cast and 11,855 ballots were rejected.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/h2>\n

To see the version of the speech I saw, check out http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/943729\/denis-coderre-in-the-lead-for-mayor-of-montreal\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My source for the ballot information is http:\/\/www.resultats-election-montreal.ca\/index.en.html<\/a>, which I verified at 9:30 this morning. I suspect they\u2019ll update it with all the polls as the day progresses.<\/p>\n

Coderre\u2019s election website also just got updated (at 10:40 a.m.) with http:\/\/www.equipedeniscoderre.com\/2013\/11\/04\/denis-coderre-elu-maire-de-montreal\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In his first speech as mayor-elect, Denis Coderre spoke about his plans to fight for any Montrealer who needs him. \u201cI will be the mayor of all Montrealers, ALL Montrealers. I\u2019m going to make sure that I will be their leader. I\u2019m going to make sure that in any occasion, I\u2019m going to stand for […]<\/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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-report","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-Nz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15691,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/montreal-rejuvenation-coderre\/","url_meta":{"origin":3073,"position":0},"title":"Denis Coderre’s Montreal Rejuvenation Plans","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"April 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Leading Montreal\u2019s three-day trade mission to New York this week is among eight ways Mayor Denis Coderre plans to rejuvenate his city. 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