{"id":301989,"date":"2025-11-23T15:56:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T15:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301989\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T15:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T15:56:15","slug":"vincent-marissal-quits-quebec-solidaire-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301989\/","title":{"rendered":"Vincent Marissal quits Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire &#8211; Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted November 22, 2025 1:55 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>MONTREAL \u2013 Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire MNA Vincent Marissal announced today he would be leaving the party to sit as an independent until the next election.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763808739_201_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He shared the news Saturday morning from his constituency office in Montreal\u2019s Rosemount borough.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came just about 15 minutes after the party issued a statement saying its caucus had voted unanimously to suspend him.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRelated Videos\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Global National: Nov. 22'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Global_National.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t21:56<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGlobal National: Nov. 22\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrevious Video<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNext Video<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The opposition party says it did so after learning Marissal had been in talks with Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois leader Paul Saint-Pierre Plamondon about running as a PQ candidate in the 2026 election.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11536947\/lost-canadians-law\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763913374_704_Parliament-flag-Canada.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Lost Canadians\u2019 legislation is now law, aims to fix citizenship rule\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11537655\/canada-jd-vance-immigration-living-standards\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763913374_303_1b76aeccb16af9094985a11aef0cd409ee5657d26b55a1c2402e85225e563556.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tJD Vance says Canada\u2019s immigration \u2018insanity\u2019 caused lower living standards\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763808740_130_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Through a press release, Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire co-spokesperson Ruba Ghazal said citizens need to be able to count on elected officials to respect the mandate given to them by voters, leading her to push for a vote on his suspension.<\/p>\n<p>Marissal was elected in the 2018 election, when he defeated then-leader of the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lis\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p>He was re-elected four years later, winning by a majority of more than 5,000 votes over Coalition Avenir Quebec candidate Sandra O\u2019Connor.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 22, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Politics<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Canadian Press The Canadian Press Posted November 22, 2025 1:55 pm 1 min read Descrease 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