Ensemble Montréal

Ensemble Montréal is a municipal political party in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its 35 elected officiials are present in many districts in Montreal and represent the boroughs of Montréal-Nord (mayor, Christine Black), Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles (mayor, Chantal Rouleau), Saint-Léonard (mayor, Michel Bissonnet), Saint-Laurent (mayor, Alan DeSousa) and Pierrefonds-Roxboro (mayor, Dimitrios (Jim) Beis). Since November 5, 2017, Lionel Perez is the interim leader and the 21 elected officials who sit on the Montreal City Council form the Official Opposition. To find the list of Ensemble Montréal's elected officials by borough: https://ensemblemtl.org/index.php/en/elected-officials

2013 elections

The party was created in 2013 under the name Équipe Denis Coderre pour Montréal to support the candidacy of Denis Coderre for Mayor of Montréal during the November 3rd, 2013 municipal elections. In 2012, Denis Coderre announced his candidacy for mayor of Montreal.^[1] Beginning in June 2013, seventeen sitting members of Montreal City Council, as well as several borough councillors, switched their party affiliation to Coderre's team.^[2] Most were sitting as independent councillors following the dissolution of the Union Montréal party in the wake of Gérald Tremblay's resignation as mayor in 2012, although Coderre attracted support from former Vision Montréal and Projet Montréal councillors as well.

The party also announced a number of non-incumbent candidates in other races, including former Radio-Canada journalist Philippe Schnobb.^[3] However, the party also faced some criticism for the fact that of the 19 candidates announced by the party as of early August, fifteen were incumbents and only four were new candidates, resulting in media speculation that Coderre could potentially fall short of his early promise to put forward a slate of candidates that was at least 50 per cent new.^[4]

2017 elections

Denis Coderre also contested the Montreal municipal elections in 2017 under the name Équipe Denis Coderre pour Montréal. On losing the 2017 municipal election, Denis Coderre left municipal politics. To disassociate themselves from their resigning leader, the party known as Équipe Denis Coderre first declared an intention to change its name to "Mouvement Montréal", but failed to register the name before making the announcement, allowing a third party to quickly reserve the name for themselves.^[7][8]

Thus, the party had to come up with another new name and changed to "Ensemble Montréal."^[9]

References

External links

• Official website