Two Candidates Compete for Laval Mayorship Next Week

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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The two candidates competing for the office of the Mayor in the City of Laval are Alexandre Duplessis and Jacques St-Jean, both of whom have officially confirmed their participation in the election process for the job till Tuesday.

Duplessis initially entered politics by being elected as the councilor for the Saint-Martin district in 2005, after which he went on and joined the executive committee in 2009. On the other hand, St-Jean has been long-serving the district of Saint-François since 1993. The members of the municipal council are scheduled to attend a secret ballot voting next week for deciding who is going to serve the city as the interim mayor until the next scheduled election.

Almost similar situation was triggered to elect an interim mayor of the city of Montreal, which was won by Michael Applebaum. On Nov. 13, Basile Angelopoulos, the vice-chair of Laval’s executive committee, declared that he is taking back is decision of becoming a candidate of the job after the provincial government decided that it is going to send a special auditor to Laval for keeping tabs on public works contracts awarded by the city.

At that time, Angelopoulos was the only contender attempting to take the office of mayor and was nominated unanimously by his party as an eligible candidate for the job. However, the members of former Laval mayor Gilles Vaillancourt’s party, PRO des Lavallois, declared that they will be dissolving the party on Monday after a city council meeting, while paying off almost $1 million of the party’s money back to the city and taxpayers.