{"id":872494,"date":"2026-08-26T20:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872494\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T20:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:10:09","slug":"quebec-election-campaign-starts-thursday-ahead-of-oct-5-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872494\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec election campaign starts Thursday ahead of Oct. 5 vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">QUEBEC \u2014 The Quebec general election campaign will be officially launched Thursday, for a vote on Oct. 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Premier Christine Fr\u00e9chette issued a statement Wednesday saying she will hold a final cabinet meeting Thursday before meeting the lieutenant-governor, Manon Jeannotte, around 10:30 a.m. to launch the campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The visit is a legal formality to dissolve the 43rd legislature. Quebec has a fixed-date election law stipulating the vote will take place Oct. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEBEC \u2014 The Quebec general election campaign will be officially launched Thursday, for a vote on Oct. 5.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-872494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872494","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=872494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}