Former Liberal MNA to run as an Independent

QUEBEC – The only Muslim woman in the Quebec national assembly is confirming she will run as an Independent in the provincial election.

Fatima Houda-Pepin said today she will seek re-election in the Montreal-area riding of La Piniere.

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Parti Quebecois Premier Pauline Marois is widely expected to call an April 7 vote on Wednesday.

Houda-Pepin represented La Piniere for the Liberals from 1994 until earlier this year when she parted company with the party over its position on the government’s proposed secularism charter.

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Her Liberal opponent will be Gaetan Barrette, the outgoing president of the federation that represents specialist doctors in Quebec.