{"id":416919,"date":"2026-01-18T07:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416919\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T07:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:11:10","slug":"charles-milliard-1st-candidate-to-officially-enter-quebec-liberal-leadership-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416919\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Milliard 1st candidate to officially enter Quebec Liberal leadership race"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Charles Milliard has officially entered the race for the leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party to succeed Pablo Rodriguez, who resigned in December <\/a>amid a leadership campaign-financing scandal.<\/p>\n

Milliard, a former head of Quebec’s chamber of commerce, finished second in the contest that Rodriguez won last June.<\/p>\n

A rally is scheduled for Saturday morning at in Yamachiche, Que., west of Trois-Rivieres.<\/p>\n

Milliard visited Liberal headquarters in Quebec City on Monday to submit his application, buoyed by the reported support of at least 11 colleagues in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n

Leadership hopefuls have until Feb. 13 to submit their candidacy, with 750 signatures from party members and a deposit of $30,000 required. A leadership convention is expected on March 14.<\/p>\n

Beauce farmer Mario Roy has also entered the race after placing a distant fifth last summer.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Who could replace Pablo Rodriguez?:\"\"<\/p>\n

Pablo Rodriguez is out as Quebec Liberal Party leader. Who might take his place?<\/p>\n

With less than 10 months to go until Quebec\u2019s next provincial election, a nearly month-long scandal has led to the resignation of the PLQ\u2019s leader, with several high-profile names already confirming they have no intention of replacing him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-416919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}