Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante Won’t Seek Third Term in 2025

Published on October 23, 2024

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante says she won’t run for a third term in next year’s municipal elections. Plante’s office confirmed the news, which the mayor will make official at a news conference scheduled for 11:30 a.m. at city hall. The city’s first elected woman mayor, Plante entered office in 2017 defeating incumbent mayor Denis Coderre, a former Liberal cabinet minister. Plante and her Projet Montréal party were re-elected in 2021. As well as being mayor of Montreal, Plante is also mayor of the downtown Ville-Marie borough and has served as leader of Projet Montréal since December 2016....

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