{"id":6340,"date":"2010-03-23T17:35:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T22:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=6340"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:48:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:48:21","slug":"city-hall-update-riviere-des-prairies-pointe-aux-trembles-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/03\/23\/city-hall-update-riviere-des-prairies-pointe-aux-trembles-by-election\/","title":{"rendered":"City Hall Update: Rivi\u00e8re-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles by-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/03\/rdp-pat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6342  aligncenter\" title=\"rdp-pat\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/03\/rdp-pat.jpg\" alt=\"rdp-pat\" width=\"458\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A by-election has been called for June 6 in order to elect a new borough mayor for Rivi\u00e8re-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles following the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/fr\/releases\/archive\/March2010\/04\/c6867.html\">resignation <\/a>of Union Montr\u00e9al&#8217;s Joe Magri. After serving four years as a Rivi\u00e8re-des-Prairies city councillor, Magri had just been elected borough mayor last November.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He announced early this month that he would be stepping down for health reasons, effective March 12th. It had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linformateurrdp.com\/article-437004-Le-maire-Magri-pourrait-se-retirer-pour-des-raisons-de-sante.html\">previously been reported<\/a> that he had been hospitalised after suffering a partial paralysis. Deputy mayor Suzanne D\u00e9carie of Vision Montr\u00e9al is now<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avenirdelest.com\/article-437336-Un-defi-de-taille-attend-Suzanne-Decarie.html\"> serving as acting mayor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">During the last election RDP-PAT was a hotly contested borough. On election day the traditionally Italian and middle class Rivi\u00e8re-des-Prairies voted largely for Union Montr\u00e9al and the working class francophone Pointe-aux-Trembles voted largely for Vision Montr\u00e9al. Magri narrowly held the mayorship for Union but the borough council majority shifted to Vision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For Vision this by-election represents an opportunity to firmly take control of the borough. If they win the mayorship, then they will immediately have a majority administration. It will also be the first electoral gauge of popularity for all the parties since last November&#8217;s general elections. Currently none of the three parties have selected their candidates for the position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A by-election has been called for June 6 in order to elect a new borough mayor for Rivi\u00e8re-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles following the resignation of Union Montr\u00e9al&#8217;s Joe Magri. After serving four years as a Rivi\u00e8re-des-Prairies city councillor, Magri had just been elected borough mayor last November. He announced early this month that he would be stepping down<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/03\/23\/city-hall-update-riviere-des-prairies-pointe-aux-trembles-by-election\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;City Hall Update: Rivi\u00e8re-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles by-election&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5060,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7839,7840,102],"tags":[5101,723,707,140,5102,5104,156,139,155,5100,28,5103],"class_list":["post-6340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neighbourhoods","category-politics","category-spacing","tag-acting-mayor","tag-borough-mayor","tag-deputy-mayor","tag-elections-les-elections","tag-joe-magri","tag-partial-paralysis","tag-pointe-aux-trembles","tag-politics-la-politique","tag-riviere-des-prairies","tag-riviere-des-prairies-city-councillor","tag-spacing-montreal","tag-suzanne-decarie"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>City Hall Update: Rivi\u00e8re-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles by-election - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/03\/23\/city-hall-update-riviere-des-prairies-pointe-aux-trembles-by-election\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"City Hall Update: Rivi\u00e8re-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles by-election - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A by-election has been called for June 6 in order to elect a new borough mayor for Rivi\u00e8re-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles following the resignation of Union Montr\u00e9al&#8217;s Joe Magri. 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