{"id":2263,"date":"2012-11-21T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/21\/councilors-vie-to-succeed-laval-mayor\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:41:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:41:59","slug":"councilors-vie-to-succeed-laval-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/21\/councilors-vie-to-succeed-laval-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Councilors vie to succeed Laval mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Robert Frank<\/b><\/p>\n

\nwww.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Laval city council is expected to vote this week to choose an interim mayor to replace Gilles Vaillancourt, who resigned two weeks ago, after serving more than 39 years in a succession of public offices. <\/p>\n

In the meantime, all elected councillors resigned this week from the mayor\u2019s political party, which will likely be dissolved. <\/p>\n

Two members have thrown their hat in the ring to become mayor: St. Martin councillor Alexandre Duplessis and St. Fran\u00e7ois councillor Jacques St. Jean. <\/p>\n

St. Jean chairs the city\u2019s urban planning and agricultural advisory committees, and is a member of its accessibility joint advisory committee.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Duplessis is associate councillor on Laval\u2019s executive committee, responsible for the city\u2019s youth, immigration, cultural communities, sports and recreation and public service files. <\/p>\n

Whichever contender wins the contest to become interim mayor will serve until just under a year from now, when Laval citizens next go to the polls to elect a new municipal administration in November 2013. <\/p>\n

This weeks\u2019s council election will take place under a cloud, whilst the city remains under siege on several fronts at once, hobbling its ability to conduct day-to-day municipal business. <\/p>\n

The municipal administration has been granted participant status at the Charbonneau commission looking into accusations of construction-industry corruption; the Quebec government has appointed two special auditors to \u201caccompany\u201d city officials during the coming year; and, as this week\u2019s edition of The Suburban<\/i> went to press, the S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s anti-corruption unit was executing yet another in its series of search warrants that have seen it swoop down on a long string of Laval homes, offices, financial institutions and city hall. <\/p>\n

Executive committee vice-chairman Basile Angelopoulos told reporters at a news conference that the special auditors\u2019 presence could pose a problem, because the province has not clearly defined their powers.<\/p><\/div>\n

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