Québec solidaire supports member who accused fellow politicians of denigrating minorities

A Quebec governmental enactment has voted to enactment 1 of its members facing backlash for saying that racialized radical are regularly disparaged astatine the provincial legislature.

Québec solidaire members adopted an exigency solution astatine the party’s normal precocious Sunday condemning the hatred directed astatine Haroun Bouazzi, without endorsing his comments.

Bouazzi, who represents a Montreal riding, has faced disapproval for a code delivered precocious earlier Fondation Club Avenir, a assemblage radical that works with immigrants.

“God knows I spot this successful the nationalist assembly each day, the operation of this other, this different who is North African, who is Muslim, who is Black, who is Indigenous, and whose culture, by definition, would beryllium unsafe oregon inferior,” Bouazzi told the crowd.

Other governmental parties said Bouazzi’s remarks labelled elected officials arsenic racists, and the co-leaders of his ain enactment rebuked him for his “clumsy and exaggerated” comments.

Eleven Québec solidaire constituency associations publically supported Bouazzi, and called connected the enactment to follow a solution denouncing what they described arsenic a smear run against him. After a closed-door debate, the solution approved during Sunday’s gathering had been rewritten by the party, and balanced the interests of those who supported Bouazzi and others who wanted to region Québec solidaire from his comments.

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Bouazzi, who has said helium ne'er intended to picture his colleagues arsenic racist, thanked his enactment for their enactment and for their committedness to the combat against systemic racism.

“I americium precise blessed that the delegates of Québec solidaire person reaffirmed the party’s committedness to the combat against systemic racism and that they unambiguously condemn the unjustified instrumentalization of immigrants successful the nationalist debate,” helium wrote connected X. “I convey them for condemning the defamation run against me.”

Party co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois told reporters aft Sunday’s gathering that helium considers the substance to beryllium closed. And Ruba Ghazal, the recently named pistillate co-spokesperson, added, “Québec solidaire has ne'er maintained that the nationalist assembly and its members are racist.”