Québec Solidaire's Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois won't seek re-election, sources say

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· Posted: Mar 20, 2025 7:59 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, the co-spokesperson for Québec Solidaire, volition not question re-election successful the adjacent provincial predetermination scheduled for the autumn of 2026, sources person told Radio-Canada.

Nadeau-Dubois will, however, implicit his mandate arsenic MNA for the Montreal riding of Gouin. The accusation was archetypal reported by the French media outlet Pivot.

He is scheduled to clasp a quality league aboriginal today. 

The determination comes conscionable arsenic Nadeau-Dubois returns from paternity leave. The last 2 years person been tumultuous for the party, with highly publicized interior debates astir however it is being managed.

Québec Solidaire also had a disappointing showing successful the caller Terrebonne byelection, wherever it received little than 5 per cent of the vote. The byelection was won by Catherine Gentilcore of the Parti Québécois.

Québec Solidaire has the third-most seats successful the National Assembly, but polls suggest it wouldn't support its 12 seats astatine the National Assembly if an predetermination were held today.

The left-wing party doesn't person a accepted enactment structure, with 2 spokespersons alternatively of a enactment leader. Ruba Ghazal, the MNA for Mercier, is the different co-spokesperson.

Nadeau-Dubois, 34, roseate to prominence successful Quebec during the pupil protests of 2012. He was elected to the National Assembly successful 2017.