US EditionQuebec Liberals hope to boost their fortunes as they choose new leader
- The Quebec Liberal Party will select its new leader on June 13, 2025, during an event held in the provincial capital, with five candidates competing, all of whom currently lack seats in the provincial legislature.
- The leadership race follows the party’s back-to-back defeats in 2018 and 2022 by François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec, which fractured its historic francophone voter base.
- Leading some polls yet without a clear majority in the party’s ranked-choice voting, the top candidate—a former member of the federal cabinet—faces criticism over Legault’s management of Quebec’s unprecedented $13.6-billion budget shortfall.
- Rodriguez emphasized that a premier’s main responsibility is to bring people together rather than create division, while analysts highlight that the leadership campaign has received little attention and stress the need for the Liberals to rebuild their connection with francophone voters.
- Regardless of the outcome, experts agree the Liberals face challenges rebuilding support outside Montreal as they prepare to contest the October 2026 election against a surging Parti Québécois.
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Quebec Liberals to Elect New Leader at Convention in Provincial Capital
The Quebec Liberals will choose their new leader Saturday afternoon at a convention in the provincial capital. Five candidates are vying to take the helm of the party, which is hoping to make a comeback after suffering crushing defeats in the last two provincial elections. The campaign has had to compete for the public’s attention with a federal election and a trade war with the United States. Still, party president Rafael Primeau-Ferraro said h…
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