Quebec Solidaire divided over Haroun Bouazzi controversy [Video]

Québec Solidaire MNA Haroun Bouazzi’s comments about alleged racism in the National Assembly are sowing division within the party.

Bouazzi has been publicly condemned by spokespersons Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois and Ruba Ghazal, but he can count on the support of at least 11 constituency associations.

Those associations will be submitting an emergency motion to the QS convention on Sunday, calling on the party to support Bouazzi and denounce “the smear campaign against him.”

Haroun Bouazzi is currently at the centre of controversy for having said that, every day in the National Assembly, he heard comments that portrayed the “Other,” the immigrant, the native, as a dangerous culture.

His comments caused an uproar throughout the political class, to the point where Nadeau-Dubois and Ghazal called their colleague to order for his “clumsy, exaggerated and polarising” statements.

On Saturday evening, at the party organised to mark Ghazal’s election as its female co-spokesperson — …