Quebec Solidaire MNA may run for Montreal mayor [Video]

The Quebec Solidaire (QS) Rosemont MNA Vincent Marissal is not closing the door on running for mayor of Montreal.

“I’m discussing it with myself,” he said at a news briefing at the National Assembly on Thursday. “I need to do an interview with myself. I need to talk. Politics is also a family matter.”

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante announced on Wednesday that she would not be seeking a third term because she did not see herself running the city for another four years with the same level of energy, she explained.

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Since then, several names have been circulating for the mayoralty, including that of Marissal, who said on Thursday that he was “flattered.”

The MNA admitted having been approached a few months ago by certain people.

On Wednesday he warned his party’s co-spokespersons that he was thinking about running for mayor of Montreal.

At a …