Québec solidaire at a crossroads after Nadeau-Dubois’s departure
Posted March 21, 2025 10:01 am.
After co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois’s departure, Québec solidaire is at a crossroads and will be counting on Ruba Ghazal to lead the battle of 2026.
But the MNA for Mercier inherits a party that has been plagued by internal strife and disagreements.
According to Le Journal de Montréal, political insiders expect Ghazal to soon announce that she will position herself as the figurehead of QS for the next election and will say that she wants to represent the party in the leaders’ debates.
“Worn out” by internal conflicts, Nadeau-Dubois announced his political retirement on Thursday.
Stating that he preferred to step down “to allow new figures to emerge,” he also announced that he will not seek re-election in the next election.
Nadeau-Dubois was a leading figure in the 2012 student movement. He made the transition to politics in 2017, when one of the party’s first spokespersons, Françoise David, left her position as MNA for Gouin.
He was elected continuously from 2017 to 2022.
For the past few years, he has been trying to make the party appealing to more Quebec voters, more “pragmatic” and perceived less as a Montreal radical activist party.
Currently, QS is stagnating in the polls, vacillating between 12 per cent and 14 per cent of voting intentions.
