Helen Fotopulos was a member of the

City of Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-pea ...

executive committee and Cote des Neiges (CDN) City Councillor. She began in city politics with an unsuccessful run for office in 1978 for the

Montreal Citizens' Movement The Montreal Citizens' Movement (MCM, french: Rassemblement des citoyens et des citoyennes de Montréal or RCM) was a municipal political party in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It existed from 1973 to 2001. Origins The Montreal Citizens' Movement ...

in that city's Snowdon district. After serving as the MCM's cultural and intercultural affairs adviser for six years, she ran in 1994 and was elected councilor for

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, Having left the MCM in 1997 she joined Jean Doré's Equipe Montréal and was re-elected in 1998. In 2001 she joined with

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to form

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and won three straight elections. She served two terms as

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borough mayor and was then CDN city councilor. She was the executive committee member responsible for culture, heritage and women's issues. She was defeated in 2013.

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