{"id":926980,"date":"2026-10-09T21:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926980\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T21:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T21:24:09","slug":"villeray-st-michel-parc-extension-borough-mayor-ditches-projet-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926980\/","title":{"rendered":"Villeray\u200a\u2014\u200aSt-Michel\u200a\u2014\u200aParc-Extension borough mayor ditches Projet Montr\u00e9al"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Villeray\u2014St-Michel\u2014Parc-Extension borough Mayor Jean Fran\u00e7ois Lalonde is leaving Projet Montr\u00e9al to sit as an independent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The party announced his departure in a news release Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cConsistency in our political direction and cohesion within our team are essential to fulfilling our commitments to the public,\u201d interim party leader Ericka Alneus said in statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Villeray\u2014St-Michel\u2014Parc-Extension borough Mayor Jean Fran\u00e7ois Lalonde is leaving Projet Montr\u00e9al to sit as an independent. The party announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338,318455],"class_list":["post-926980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926980","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=926980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}