{"id":947766,"date":"2026-10-27T04:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T04:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947766\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T04:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T04:56:12","slug":"quebec-liberals-plan-court-challenge-to-three-vote-pq-victory-in-vachon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947766\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec Liberals plan court challenge to three-vote PQ victory in Vachon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Quebec Liberal Party says it will challenge the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois\u2019s three-vote victory in Vachon in court, arguing that ballots were wrongly rejected during a judicial recount because of minor pencil marks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Liberal candidate Affine Lwalalika <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1E9mKZUazy\/\">announced Monday in a Facebook post<\/a> that the party had consulted its lawyers and intends to file a legal challenge, five days after the recount overturned her initial 10-vote lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/quebec-elections\/recount-flips-vachon-riding-to-pq-by-three-votes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The announcement goes a step further than the party\u2019s position last week<\/a>, when it said it would not concede victory and that its lawyers were reviewing available legal options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Quebec Liberal Party says it will challenge the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois\u2019s three-vote victory in Vachon in court, arguing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-947766","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\/947766","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=947766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}