The National Assembly resumed sitting Tuesday after a week-long break, with MNAs returning to the legislature for the primary time since inside turmoil erupted inside each the Quebec Liberal Party and Quebec Solidaire.
Liberal MNA André Fortin rose in query interval for the primary time because the official opposition chief, taking up from Marwah Rizqy, who stays suspended from caucus after triggering a disaster within the occasion.
“Context isn’t nice, let’s be sincere with one another, however the job stays the job,” Fortin mentioned.
Quebec Liberal Leader Pablo Rodriguez walks in a information convention on the legislature in Quebec City, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025. Opposition Leader André Fortin, proper, walks alongside.
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Rizqy has been at odds with Liberal Leader Pablo Rodriguez since she unilaterally fired her chief of workers, Geneviève Hinse, with out explaining her determination. Hinse and Rodriguez have lengthy been shut associates.
“I believe it’s hurting the occasion,” Rodriguez mentioned, including he’s nonetheless ready for Rizqy to return his calls.
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Hinse is suing Rizqy for $500,000 for wrongful dismissal. In a social media publish Sunday night, Rizqy mentioned she couldn’t focus on the firing publicly as a result of it’s a human sources matter.
Rodriguez countered that Hinse has already approved her to talk brazenly in regards to the case. The Liberals confirmed Tuesday that the National Assembly’s ethics commissioner is now concerned. Fortin mentioned he wrote a proper letter asking the commissioner to supply steering.
Rodriguez insisted the occasion stays behind him, at the same time as he additionally works to include corruption allegations. His management marketing campaign is accused of paying folks $100 to vote for him — an accusation he strongly denies.
An impartial investigation, led by a retired choose, will study textual content messages revealed by the Journal de Montréal. PQ Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon mentioned if the messages are authenticated, it will point out fraud within the Liberal management race.
Meanwhile, Quebec Solidaire (QS) denied it’s going through an inside disaster after ejecting high-profile MNA Vincent Marissal over the weekend.
The occasion says Marissal was eliminated after it emerged he had been in discussions with the Parti Québécois (PQ) about defecting.
Marissal sharply criticized QS as he left to take a seat as an impartial, earlier than softening his place in a later Facebook publish. “We will let him dwell along with his conscience,” QS Leader Ruba Ghazal mentioned.
Rizqy was absent from the National Assembly on Tuesday, as was her husband, West Island Liberal MNA Greg Kelley. Marissal additionally didn’t attend the reopening of the session.
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