Independent Quebec MNA Gerry Sklavounos has announced he will not be running in the upcoming provincial election, saying that he will instead spend time with his family.
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“The arrival of our third child, impatiently expected next month was decisive in my reflection,” he said in a statement.
The politician has been at the centre of several sexual misconduct allegations since October 2016.
Sklavounos was swiftly removed from the Liberal caucus after a woman alleged he violently assaulted her twice in 2014 when she was 19 and working as a hostess at a Quebec City restaurant.
He has been an MNA since 2007 in the Montreal-area district of Laurier-Dorion.
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