{"id":693059,"date":"2026-05-25T17:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T17:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/693059\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T17:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T17:40:17","slug":"quebec-conservative-leader-eric-duhaime-will-run-in-bellechasse-according-to-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/693059\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec Conservative Leader \u00c9ric Duhaime will run in Bellechasse, according to reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative Party of Quebec Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/provincial-news\/provincial-politics\/duhaime-reverses-course-on-bill-96-now-says-he-will-amend-but-not-scrap-it\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/provincial-news\/provincial-politics\/duhaime-reverses-course-on-bill-96-now-says-he-will-amend-but-not-scrap-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00c9ric Duhaime<\/a> will seek a seat in the Chaudi\u00e8re-Appalaches riding of Bellechasse, according to media reports, although his campaign says he could also run in Portneuf or Beauce-Nord.<\/p>\n<p>He will announce his decision by the end of the month, party spokesperson Danny Lizotte said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A report in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavoixdusud.com\/actualites\/eric-duhaime-candidat-dans-bellechasse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">La Voix du Sud<\/a> on Saturday said Duhaime is expected to announce that he intends to run in Bellechasse on Wednesday, at the Bellechasse golf club in St-Damien-de-Buckland.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial riding of Bellechasse includes a vast, mostly rural territory spanning from east of L\u00e9vis to the United States border and part of the city of L\u00e9vis.<\/p>\n<p>The Bellechasse riding has been held by St\u00e9phanie Lachance of the Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec since 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The article in La Voix du Sud, a French-language weekly, noted that Duhaime said in April that he had cut the list of ridings in which he was considering a run to three: Bellechasse, Portneuf and Beauce-Nord.<\/p>\n<p>But recent visits he made to Bellechasse and meetings with local politicians, businesspeople and Dominique Vien, member of Parliament for Bellechasse\u2014Les Etchemins\u2014L\u00e9vis, fed rumours that he would choose Bellechasse, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>As leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec, Duhaime ran in 2022 in the Quebec City-area riding of Chauveau, finishing second to incumbent CAQ candidate Sylvain L\u00e9vesque.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, he ran in a byelection in the central Quebec riding of Arthabaska and placed second, losing to Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois candidate Alex Boissonneault.<\/p>\n<p>Duhaime first ran for office in 2003, as a candidate for the Action d\u00e9mocratique du Qu\u00e9bec in the Montreal-area riding of Deux-Montagnes. He finished in third place.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conservative Party of Quebec Leader \u00c9ric Duhaime will seek a seat in the Chaudi\u00e8re-Appalaches riding of Bellechasse, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,120789,66],"class_list":["post-693059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-quebec-elections","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693059","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=693059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}