Catherine Fournier (born 7 April 1992) is a

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politician, who was elected as mayor of

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on November 7, 2021. She is the third female mayor in the city's history. She was previously member of the

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, having been elected in a

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on December 5, 2016. She represented the electoral district of

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. Fournier was the youngest member of the National Assembly, and the youngest woman ever elected to that body. Originally elected as a member of the

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, Fournier won a full term in

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even amid the PQ's meltdown in

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; she was the only surviving PQ member from the metro area. However, she quit the PQ on March 11, 2019 to sit as an independent MNA. She believed the party had lost its way ideologically, though she still considers herself a committed sovereigntist. Before her election to the National Assembly, Fournier ran for the

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in the 2015 federal election in the riding of

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, finishing second. She also briefly served as the party's vice-president.

Early life

Fournier was born in

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on 7 April 1992. She holds an economics major and political science minor from the

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. She was a political blogger and columnist for 103.3 FM.

Electoral record

Federal

Provincial

References

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