Valerie Plante’s election signals a move away from old-style politics: analyst
MONTREAL — Valerie Plante’s election as Montreal mayor sends a clear message that people are tired of old-style politics, according to one political scientist.
Concordia University’s Daniel Salee described former mayor Denis Coderre as “a sort of grumpy old bear” who thought he knew what was best for Montreal.
“Coderre is an old politician in a sense that his approach is one that’s been favoured by the older generation of politicians, which is essentially smear campaigns and attacking or essentially trying to delegitimize the positions of their adversaries,” Salee said in an interview Monday.
‘I think we’ve reached the point where people are not interested in these types of old tactics where politics appears to be a competition, a fight to the finish.”