Two Moroccans of the Quebec Liberal Party succeeded in winning two parliamentary seats, yesterday, Monday, in the legislative elections in Quebec, Canada, which elected a right-wing government that ended the 15-year rule of liberals.
The Moroccan Moncef Darraji of the Liberal Party won a seat in the electoral district of Nélégane in Montreal after winning the first place with 22,406 votes, ahead of candidates of the Coalition for Quebec’s Future, Solidary Quebec and the PQ.
The Moroccan Marwa Rizki, a Quebec-born university professor, also won a seat in the Quebec Liberal Party‘s St. Laurent constituency in Montreal with 17,953 votes, far ahead from other candidates. Other Moroccans, including Aziza Dini of the Green Party of Quebec in Labenier’s distric, were not so lucky, as the latter was ranked fifth with 585 votes, followed by the Moroccan Anouar Alyoubi of the Conservative Party of Quebec , who was ranked sixth with 447 votes.
The same goes for the Moroccan Mohammed Barhoun, candidate of the Liberal Party of Quebec, who did not succeed in winning a parliamentary seat in the constituency of Taillon, where he was ranked fourth with 6042 votes.
The Coalition for Quebec’s Future won the first place in the elections with 1.5 million votes; it is a nationalist party that does not seek Quebec’s secession from Canada but wishes to limit the intervention of the federal state and aims at reducing growing immigration.
François Lugo became the first new prime minister in Quebec’s province. He is a businessman who vows to work for Quebec in Canada, which is a sign of ending the controversy that had accompanied all the former electoral stations over the separation of the province from Ottawa.
The Coalition for Quebec’s Future, founded in 2011, has an absolute majority in the parliament of Quebec representing 74 out of 125 deputies after it only occupied 21 seats in the previous legislature was dominated by liberals.
The results are a powerful blow to liberals who lost Ontario, Canada’s richest province, last June, which went to another conservative party, making the Canadian Liberal Party’s Justin Trudeau face a difficult task in next year’s federal elections, in the light of the rise of national currents.