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.
