Quebec court confirms Liberal candidate in Matane

Article content material

The Quebec Superior Courtroom has agreed with the Liberal Get together and its candidate Harley Lounsbury and has ordered the chief electoral officer to substantiate the candidacy within the driving of Matane-Matapédia.

The choice by Decide Clément Samson got here on Wednesday night, ordering “the Returning Officer for the driving of Matane-Matapédia to concern a discover of compliance for the candidacy” of Lounsbury.

Article content material

Liberal Chief Dominique Anglade reacted shortly on social networks by posting a message on Twitter through which she stated she was “pleased with the choice.”

Article content material

“We’ve certainly submitted 125 compliant purposes. It’s a nice victory for democracy,” she added.

The courtroom’s 14-page resolution revealed that the explanation given by the returning officer, Jeannot Michaud, to reject the Liberal candidacy within the driving was primarily based on the absence of signatures and initials in two very particular packing containers within the official paperwork.

The Liberals argued that “the necessity, for an agent who recruits voters (…) to affix his signature twice and, as well as, his initials, will not be offered for to the regulation.” They added that rejecting a candidacy for that straightforward purpose was ‘unreasonable’ in relation to Lounsbury’s constitutional rights.

Decide Samson sided with the plaintiffs and decided that the rejection of  Lounsbury’s candidacy “on the bottom that his three brokers had didn’t signal the declaration of candidacy is unreasonable.”