Alexandre Boulerice quits federal NDP to run for sovereigntist Quebec party - BERITAJA

Alexandre Boulerice has announced he is leaving the federal NDP to join the leftist, sovereigntist Québec solidaire party ahead of October’s provincial election.

Boulerice, the only Quebec member of Parliament remaining for the NDP, says he will instantly beryllium arsenic an Independent and will formally resign the time earlier the provincial run is called.

His departure had been an unfastened secret for some time, and he made the charismatic announcement coming successful the Montreal riding of Gouin wherever he plans to run for Québec solidaire.

Québec solidaire co-spokesperson Sol Zanetti says his party’s caller enlistee represents a beardown endorsement of its pro-independence platform.

The Gouin riding is considered a safe seat for Québec solidaire, which has been struggling pinch the electorate since the 2022 predetermination and is polling down the different awesome parties.

Boulerice is the past MP opinionated in Quebec from the NDP’s 2011 “orange wave” election, which catapulted the party under Jack Layton to official Opposition position successful the House of Commons.

The departure of the MP from Montreal’s Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie riding leaves the NDP with 5 seats successful Parliament, each located westbound of Ontario.