US EditionQuebec Liberals Want Media to Release Names in Anonymous Text-Message Exchanges
Quebec Liberals seek disclosure of names and numbers in texts alleging vote-buying to investigate claims and protect party integrity before next election.
- After the Journal de Montréal published excerpts earlier this week, the Quebec Liberal Party demanded media disclose names and phone numbers linked to anonymous text messages.
- The Journal reported that messages exchanged this spring between two individuals allege membership card sales and money spent to influence votes during the leadership race, while Rodriguez urged revising the Election Act.
- Rodriguez said the formal notice aims to identify those involved, while Sona Lakhoyan Olivier is sending a formal notice to Cogeco after denying authorship of the messages; Quebecor has not responded to comment requests.
- The party has already seen fallout including the suspension of Marwah Rizqy, MNA, a $500,000 lawsuit by Geneviève Hinse in Quebec Superior Court, and calls for an external investigation after irregularities surfaced Tuesday evening.
- Rodriguez defended the contest, saying, `Like everyone else, during the last leadership contest, we were all convinced that it was illegal anyway`, and urged revising electoral law at the National Assembly.
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Quebec Liberals want media to release names in anonymous text-message exchanges
QUÉBEC — Quebec Liberal Leader Pablo Rodriguez says his party will send a formal legal notice to the Journal de Montréal, after the news outlet published a report alleging some party members were paid to vote for him in his leadership campaign.
Quebec Liberals want media to release names in anonymous text-message exchanges
QUÉBEC — Quebec Liberal Leader Pablo Rodriguez says his party will send a formal legal notice to the Journal de Montréal, after the news outlet published a report alleging some party members were paid to vote for him in his leadership campaign.
Quebec Liberals want media to release names in anonymous text-message exchanges
QUÉBEC — Quebec Liberal Leader Pablo Rodriguez says his party will send a formal legal notice to the Journal de Montréal, after the news outlet published a report alleging some party members were paid to vote for him in his leadership campaign.
Quebec Liberals want media to release names in anonymous text-message exchanges
QUÉBEC — Quebec Liberal Leader Pablo Rodriguez says his party will send a formal legal notice to the Journal de Montréal, after the news outlet published a report alleging some party members were paid to vote for him in his leadership campaign.
Quebec Liberals want media to release names in anonymous text-message exchanges
QUÉBEC — Quebec Liberal Leader Pablo Rodriguez says his party will send a formal legal notice to the Journal de Montréal, after the news outlet published a report alleging some party members were paid to vote for him in his leadership campaign.
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