Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante won’t seek third term in 2025

By The Canadian Press on October 23, 2024.

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante participates in the Adaptation Futures 2023 Conference devoted to climate change adaptation on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. Plante says she won't be running for a third term and will quit municipal politics at the end of this term in 2025.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante says she won’t run for a third term in next year’s municipal elections.

Plante’s office confirmed the news, which the mayor will make official at a news conference scheduled for 11:30 a.m. at city hall.

The city’s first elected woman mayor, Plante entered office in 2017 defeating incumbent mayor Denis Coderre, a former Liberal cabinet minister.

Plante and her Projet Montréal party were re-elected in 2021.

As well as being mayor of Montreal, Plante is also mayor of the downtown Ville-Marie borough and has served as leader of Projet Montréal since December 2016.

She was first elected to city council in 2013.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 23, 2024.