Gatineau’s Équipe Mario Aubé loses…Mario Aubé

OttawaMario Aubé is stepping away from the party that bears his name following his recent defeat in Gatineau’s mayoral election. Exit of party founder and namesake comes 3 weeks after his defeat in mayoral contestCBC News · Posted: Nov 21, 2025 2:50 PM EST | Last Updated: 2 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 2 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.Mario Aubé founded the Gatineau municipal election party Équipe Mario Aubé. Now he’s leaving it, he announced Friday. (Olivier Plante/Radio-Canada)A municipal political party in Gatineau, Que., is losing its founder and namesake following his recent defeat in the city’s mayoral election.In his first public remarks since he lost out to incumbent Maude Marquis-Bissonnette on Nov. 2, Mario Aubé announced his surprise exit from Équipe Mario Aubé in a news release Friday. Aubé, who won’t be taking on any other role in the party, did not make himself available to Radio-Canada for comment. He garnered 47 per cent of the vote in this month’s election, not enough to unseat Marquis-Bissonnette, who leads rival party Action Gatineau and received 51.1 per cent of the vote. Aubé said in the release that he met with party officials on Thursday and agreed to a request to appoint Timmy Jutras as the party’s interim leader. Jutras won Gatineau’s Lac-Beauchamp seat in the election. Aubé expressed immense pride in his former party, which secured seven of Gatineau city council’s 20 seats, though two of those Équipe Mario Aubé councillors announced this week they’re also leaving the party and turning Independent. One of them, Michael Korhonen, was visibly shocked at the news of Aubé’s split from his upstart party, which was only launched earlier this year. “It’s a bit overwhelming,” Korhonen said in French. Aubé is a former journalist and broadcaster who entered politics in 2021. He represented Gatineau’s Masson-Angers district as an Independent during council’s last term before taking a run at the mayor’s seat. “I wish him much peace and tranquility, and many exciting projects for the future,” Marquis-Bissonnette said in French in her own written statement.With files from Radio-Canada