{"id":592564,"date":"2026-04-09T13:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/592564\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:35:10","slug":"quebec-legislature-prorogued-as-caq-set-to-name-new-leader-who-will-become-premier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/592564\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec legislature prorogued as CAQ set to name new leader who will become premier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Quebec government has prorogued the legislature as the Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec gets ready to choose a new leader this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The cabinet of outgoing Premier Francois Legault says the national assembly will return with a new session \u2014 and new premier \u2014 on May 5.<\/p>\n<p>Christine Fr\u00e9chette, a former economy minister, and Bernard Drainville, an ex-environment minister, are the only candidates running to replace Legault.<\/p>\n<p>Legault announced in January he would step down after serving as premier since 2018.<\/p>\n<p>His office says the pause in the activities of the legislature will give the new leader time for a proper transition.<\/p>\n<p>CAQ members have started voting and Legault\u2019s successor will be announced on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Quebec government has prorogued the legislature as the Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec gets ready to choose a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-592564","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\/592564","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=592564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}