Valerie Plante: Five things about Montreal Mayor, who won’t seek re-election in 2025 [Video]

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante says she will quit municipal politics after serving the final year of her second term, which comes to an end in November 2025.

Known for her trademark laugh and positive energy, here are five things about the municipal politician first elected as a city councillor in 2013.

Montreal’s first elected female mayor

The City of Montreal’s 45th mayor was the first woman elected to the job, in 2017. During the preceding election campaign, Plante wasn’t well-known to voters as she locked horns with Denis Coderre, a former Liberal cabinet minister, who had been the city’s bombastic incumbent mayor since 2013.

• IN PHOTOS: Montreal’s first female mayor Valerie Plante will not seek re-election

A campaign poster depicting a smiling Plante adorned with the slogan “l’homme de la situation” (the right man for the job) caught everyone’s attention. Before upsetting Coderre in 2017, she defeated former Parti Québécois cabinet minister and ex-Montreal mayoral candidate Louise Harel to win a council seat in 2013.

Speaking out …