Jean Fortier to join Montreal mayoral race for Coalition Montral

A third candidate has joined Montreal's mayoral race.

Jean Fortier, who oncechairedthe city's executive committee, is running under the banner of the centre-leftparty, Coalition Montral.

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The former Vision Montreal councillorwill vie for the top job against the sitting mayor,Denis Coderre, and Projet MontralLeaderValrie Plante.

Fortierheld the second-most-powerfulpolitical job in the city from 1998 to 2001, duringthe Pierre Bourqueadministration.

Most recently, he was the spokesperson for Trainsparency, a coalition of groupswhichopposes theCaisse de Dpt's light-rail train network, supported byCoderre and both the federal and provincial governments.

Coalition Montral said in a news release that the party"sees itself as the alternative to extremes represented by quipe Coderre and Projet Montral."