Projet Montréal to elect new leader on Saturday night

Ericka Alneus, Guedwig Bernier, Gracie Kasoki Katahwa, Laurence Lavigne Lalonde and Luc Rabouin are running to replace Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante as Projet Montreal leader.

The governing party in Montreal will choose a new leader on Saturday night.

Projet Montréal city councillors Luc Rabouin, Gracia Kasoki Katahwa, Laurence Lavigne Lalonde, and Ericka Alneus and party president Guedwig Bernier are running to replace party leader Valérie Plante.

Plante, who is Montreal Mayor, will stay on as mayor until the election on Nov. 2.

Advanced voting took place this week and polls close on Saturday at 5 p.m. The party will announce the leader once the votes are tabulated.

Plante announced in October that she would not seek a third term after winning elections at the head of the party in 2017 and 2021.

Whoever wins the leadership race on Saturday will run atop the ticket in the Montreal elections on Nov. 2.

Projet Montréal candidates will run against official opposition party Ensemble Montréal.

That party appointed former federal cabinet minister Soraya Martinez Ferrada as that party’s leader. She ran unopposed.