Christine Fréchette is about to be sworn in as Quebec’s premier Wednesday with lower than six months to go earlier than the provincial election.
She defeated Bernard Drainville within the race to interchange François Legault, who created the Coalition Avenir Québec in 2011 and had been premier since 2018.
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The 55-year-old Fréchette would be the province’s second feminine premier after the Parti Québécois’s Pauline Marois held the function from 2012 to 2014.
Fréchette has stated she is going to title a cupboard subsequent week and intends to make a minimum of one announcement within the coming days associated to the price of residing.
First elected in 2022 within the Sanguinet using south of Montreal, Fréchette held the economic system and immigration portfolios in Legault’s cupboard.
She now faces the duty of boosting the fortunes of the Coalition Avenir Québec, which is polling behind the Liberals, the Parti Québécois and the Conservatives forward of the Oct. 5 election.
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