The Quebec Conservatives now have an elected member within the nationwide meeting after a former cupboard minister with the Coalition Avenir Québec crossed the ground to hitch the social gathering.
Maïté Blanchette Vézina, who had give up the CAQ to take a seat as an Impartial in September, joined the Conservatives on Tuesday and introduced she is going to run for the social gathering within the October basic election.
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Blanchette Vézina left the CAQ shortly after Premier François Legault shuffled her out of the pure sources portfolio.
Since then Conservative Chief Éric Duhaime had been courting Blanchette Vézina, who delivered a speech on the social gathering’s conference in January.
Together with his new member Duhaime will now have entry to the legislature — the same state of affairs to 2021 when he satisfied former CAQ member Claire Samson to turn out to be his social gathering’s sole elected consultant.
Duhaime’s Conservatives collected practically 13 per cent of the vote through the 2022 provincial marketing campaign however did not win any seats.
In distinction the Liberals acquired roughly 14 per cent of the favored vote and gained 21 seats.
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