Marie Claude Nichols will not return to the Liberal Group

Marie-Claude Nichols will not return to the Liberal Group

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Dominique Anglade’s attempt to repair the broken pot fails: MP Marie-Claude Nichols rejects the leader’s outstretched hand and chooses not to rejoin the Liberal group.

• Also read: Anglade attempts to reintegrate Nichols into the Liberal faction

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According to information first released by Qub moderator and columnist Yasmine Abdelfadel, Vaudreuil’s representative-elect is turning her back on Dominique Anglade and will sit as an independent MP.

The two women spoke to each other on Monday. But the “passage” proposed by the Liberal leader to turn the page of this new crisis in the PLQ did not satisfy Marie-Claude Nichols. The latter was expelled from the liberal team last week over a dispute over her duties in the official opposition’s shadow cabinet.

“I don’t want to be the center of this distraction, nor the lifeline of a leadership that gets lost in unclear, thoughtless, and hasty decisions. My loyal and proud liberal beliefs need no longer be proved, but it is clear that my faith in the Führer has been very badly shaken since my expulsion manu militari and what has followed. So, despite the high opinion I have for each of you, it will be impossible for me to sit in a caucus led by a leader I do not fully trust,” she wrote in a letter to her former colleagues at the liberal wing of parliament.

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MP Nichols’ refusal to return to the Liberals is likely to fuel criticism of Dominique Anglade’s already rather shattered leadership.

In the afternoon, the head of the PLQ, Dominique Anglade, responded on her social media and said she “takes note of her decision”.

“Know that the door remains open.”