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Campaign race heating up in Côte-des-Neiges Article mis en ligne le jeudi 24 septembre 2009 Outgoing Plateau mayor Helen Fotopulos launched her electoral campaign last Monday as Union Montreal candidate for the district of Côte-des-Neiges in what is shaping up to be a tight race. Fotopulos was unfazed by an Angus Reid-La Press poll released on the day of her campaign launch. The poll had incumbent mayor and Union Montreal leader Gérald Tremblay at 38 per cent of the popular vote, lagging slightly behind Vision Montreal mayoral candidate Louise Harel’s 41 per cent. “A poll for me is on the day of the election,” Fotopulos said. Fotopulos was riding high during her campaign launch, having announced city plans to establish a 23 hectare conservation park on Mount Royal earlier Monday afternoon. Both Université de Montréal and the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery will be ceding land to develop the “third summit” in Outremont, and the city hopes to officially open the park by 2010. Fotopulos stressed the need for participatory democracy in municipal politics, also commenting on the evolving multicultural character of the borough. A number of community and cultural groups attended her campaign launch. “You have to live interculturalism,” she said. Fotopulos said she intends to focus on quality of life for citizens and economic development for her district if elected as councillor. Incumbent CDN/NDG borough mayor Michael Applebaum attended Fotopulos’ campaign launch along with Lionel Perez, candidate for the district of Darlington. Fotopulos is a long-time resident of the area, having lived in the Côte-des-Neiges district for 26 years. “I will be, as the Russian phrase puts it, ‘a fish in the water’ here,” a press release for her campaign launch states. Fotopulos has served at city hall for 20 years and is currently mayor of the Plateau. A member of Tremblay’s executive committee, Fotopulos has worked on files including culture, heritage, environment, Mount Royal, intercultural relations and the status of women. Fotopulos’ junior political attaché, Capucine Berthouloux, said her immediate focus will be placed on getting the population out to vote. “Sometimes, the difference to have a positive result is from just 30 votes,” Berthouloux said. Vision Montreal was expected to announce their candidate for Côte-des-Neiges late last week, but no candidate was filed as Les Actualités went to press. Fotopulos will be running against Magda Popeanu, a high-profile candidate and president of the Project Montreal party who garnered 16 per cent of the popular vote in the 2005 municipal elections. Parti Montréal Ville Marie has yet to announce a candidate for the district of Côte-des-Neiges [ Matthew Brett ]    |
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