{"id":23996,"date":"2022-07-15T14:21:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/editionap.ca\/?p=23996"},"modified":"2026-02-17T21:54:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:54:41","slug":"vacant-seat-declared-on-ap-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tribune-express.ca\/en\/politique\/vacant-seat-declared-on-ap-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacant seat declared on AP council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"04Corpsdetexte\"><span lang=\"FR-CA\">During their regular July 12 session, members of Alfred-Plantagenet Township council declared the Ward 2 seat of Yves Laviolette vacant. Laviolette assumed the position of mayor last month as a result of former mayor St\u00e9phane Sarrazin becoming the new Progressive Conservative MPP for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell following the June 2 provincial election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"04Corpsdetexte\"><span lang=\"FR-CA\">The Municipal Act requires that when a council seat becomes seat, council must find a new person to occupy it. Two replacement methods are available, either by appointment or by holding a by-election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"04Corpsdetexte\"><span lang=\"FR-CA\">Council has to fill the vacancy before August when the &#8220;lame duck&#8221; status for all local councils takes effect prior to the October municipal election. There is not enough time to hold a by-election so council must appoint someone to fill the vacant seat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"04Corpsdetexte\"><span lang=\"FR-CA\">Councillor Suzanne Lafrance, who continues to represent Ward 2 along with Councillor Ren\u00e9 Beaulne, suggested asking Jean-Pierre Cadieux to accept the post. Cadieux finished second to Sarrazin for the mayor\u2019s seat in the 2018 municipal election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"04Corpsdetexte\"><span lang=\"FR-CA\">Council voted to have administration contact Cadieux about filling the vacancy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is officially an empty seat at the Alfred-Plantagenet Township council table but maybe not for long. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":23994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politique"],"acf":[],"featured_media_global":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vacant seat declared on AP council - Tribune-Express<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tribune-express.ca\/en\/politique\/vacant-seat-declared-on-ap-council\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vacant seat declared on AP council - 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