{"id":156948,"date":"2026-08-05T19:28:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/156948\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T19:28:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:28:59","slug":"vaudreuil-mna-marie-claude-nichols-drops-out-of-re-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/156948\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaudreuil MNA Marie-Claude Nichols drops out of re-election campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citing unspecified \u201crecent familial circumstances that require my presence and commitment for the coming months,\u201d Vaudreuil Liberal MNA Marie-Claude Nichols announced Tuesday she will not be a candidate for re-election in October.<\/p>\n<p>Nichols becomes the only sitting Liberal MNA not running again in the provincial election this fall, though former Liberal Marwah Rizqy (Saint-Laurent) is also not running again, and former Liberal Sona Lakhoyan Olivier (Chomedey) has yet to announce her plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA resident of the region for more than 30 years and involved in politics for almost 20, including 12 as MNA, it\u2019s not without emotion that I announce my departure from public life today. I have been fully involved in the heart of my region, particularly with our local organizations and businesses, but also with our municipalities,\u201d she wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Nichols, 52, was mayor of Notre-Dame-de-l\u2019\u00cele-Perrot from 2009 until 2014, and Liberal MNA since then. In 2022, she was expelled from the party by then-leader Dominique Anglade after refusing a role of transport critic. She was reintegrated into the caucus in 2025 shortly after Pablo Rodriguez was elected the party leader.<\/p>\n<p>In her statement, Nichols took pride in the creation of the Vaudreuil-Soulanges hospital, which she said was a major motivation as MNA. She thanked her constituents, her staff, National Assembly staff, Liberal Leader Charles Milliard, and her family, including her two children, her partner and her mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, I\u2019m going home. I\u2019m packing my small suitcase and fully immersing myself in daily life with my family,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Her decision brings to 47 the number of MNAs choosing not to seek re-election in the 125-seat assembly.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/thumbnail.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"cards visualization\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Citing unspecified \u201crecent familial circumstances that require my presence and commitment for the coming months,\u201d Vaudreuil Liberal MNA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[50,129,130],"class_list":["post-156948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-montreal","tag-quebec-elections","tag-quebec-liberal-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}