Louise Harel Will Run For Mayor In The Mext Municipal Election

Vision Montreal party leader Benoit Labonté listens as former municipal affairs minister Louise Harel speaks to the press in Montreal on Wednesday. Labonte has stepped aside to make room for Harel to lead the party into the next municipal election. Photograph by: Allen McInnis, The Gazette

Harel Takes Aim At Tremblay's Job -- Montreal Gazette

The jury is still out on whether Louise Harel will hurt or help Vision Montreal party’s chances of winning power at city hall in the Nov. 1 municipal election.

But as Montrealers take in yesterday’s announcement that Vision Montreal leader Benoit Labonté is stepping aside to allow Harel, the former Parti Québécois cabinet minister who oversaw the forced municipal mergers, to run as his party’s mayoral candidate against Mayor Gérald Tremblay, certain effects are already being felt.

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Ten years ago today was the start of megacity madness -- Montreal Gazette
Former PQ cabinet minister Louise Harel to run for Montreal mayor -- Canadian Press
She's ba-a-a-ck! Louise Harel might run for mayor -- Montreal Gazette

My Comment: She does not have a chance. Her anti-english and anti-immigrant views are well known. 90% of this community will vote against her, and this community makes up more than half the population of Montreal.

Mayor Tremblay has just won his third term.