Ruba Ghazal announced her candidacy for the position of co-spokesperson for Québec solidaire (QS).
The MNA for Mercier made the announcement Wednesday morning in Montreal’s Parc La Fontaine.
Last November, Ghazal lost the race to become QS co-spokesperson by a mere 0.6 per cent in the second round.
Émilise Lessard-Therrien won, with 50.3 per cent of the vote in that round.
But in April, Lessard-Therrien stepped down, just a few months after taking office.
Her resignation sent shockwaves through Québec solidaire.
In a message explaining the reasons for her departure, she criticized the “small team of professionals tightly knit around” the male co-spokesperson, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois.
Christine Labrie, MNA for Sherbrooke, is currently acting as interim spokesperson for the party.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews