Luc Rabouin to lead Projet Montréal into 2025 municipal elections

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 16, 2025 9:09 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

Projet Montréal members person elected Luc Rabouin to go their adjacent leader. 

On Saturday evening, he won 59.2 per cent of the ballot successful the 4th round, portion the borough politician for Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Gracia Kasoki Katahwa, came successful 2nd with 40.8 per cent.

Also successful the moving were city councillor Ericka Alneus, erstwhile Projet Montréal president Guedwig Bernier and borough mayor Laurence Lavigne Lalonde.

At 1 point, the borough politician for Lachine, Maja Vodanovic, was besides successful the contention but decided successful January to driblet retired of the contention and endorsed Rabouin instead.

Rabouin, politician of the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough and seat of the city's enforcement committee, said that, arsenic Montreal's mayor, he would absorption connected the situation and housing — two areas Valérie Plante prioritized during her tenure arsenic the city's mayor.

On Saturday evening, successful beforehand of implicit 300 radical astatine Entrepôts Dominion successful the Saint-Henri neighbourhood, delivered a code that, successful summation to lodging and clime change, focused connected the economy. He besides called for a greater autonomy of the metropolis successful narration to Quebec City and Ottawa, portion highlighting the request to fortify ties with the Quebec government.

The municipal elections volition instrumentality spot connected Nov. 2, 2025.

In February, the Official Opposition enactment Ensemble Montréal announced MP Soraya Martinez Ferrada was its caller leader.

The 2 different parties represented at city hallway are Équipe LaSalle Team led by LaSalle borough politician Nancy Blanchet and Équipe Anjou led by Anjou borough politician Luis Miranda.

Last fall, Montreal politician Valérie Plante announced she would not question a 3rd word successful bureau aft 7 years connected the job.

"I realized I was not capable to warrant Montrealers 4 much years with the aforesaid level of vigor that I person ever given," she told a country of reporters and unit astatine metropolis hallway successful October 2024. 

Plante has led the enactment since December 2016. She volition proceed to service arsenic politician until the extremity of her mandate.