The municipal party branded after the former mayor of Montreal has changed its name.
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Équipe Denis Coderre is now called Mouvement Montréal.
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It was forced into the name change after Coderre’s stunning defeat by Valérie Plante in the Nov. 5 election.
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The one-term mayor and former federal cabinet minister immediately resigned from municipal politics following the defeat.
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Lionel Perez, Mouvement Montréal’s interim leader, says the party wanted a name that represented its core values, which he says “are to move Montreal forward.”
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Coderre’s former party ended up with 25 seats on Montreal’s 65-seat city council.