Marwah Rizqy
Marwah Rizqy | |
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.jpg) Marwah Rizqy in 2025 | |
| Leader of the Opposition of Quebec | |
| In office June 19, 2025 – November 18, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Marc Tanguay |
| Succeeded by | André Fortin |
| Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Saint-Laurent | |
| Assumed office October 1, 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Jean-Marc Fournier |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 17, 1985 |
| Party | Independent (since 2025) Quebec Liberal Party (until 2025) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
Marwah Rizqy (born May 17, 1985) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election.[1] She represents the electoral district of Saint-Laurent as an independent. She was elected as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party.
Career
Prior to Rizqy's election, she was a professor of tax law at the University of Sherbrooke.
She previously ran for the Liberal Party of Canada in the 2015 Canadian federal election in the riding of Hochelaga, finishing behind New Democratic Party incumbent Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet by 500 votes. In 2017, Rizqy sought the Liberal nomination for the Saint-Laurent by-election caused by the resignation of Stéphane Dion. Rizqy was defeated for the nomination by eventual winner Emmanuella Lambropoulos.
As of September 7, 2024, she serves as the opposition critic for Education and Higher Education, Treasury Board and Government Administration, Infrastructures, Tax Havens, and Consumer Protection. On June 19, 2025, she was named parliamentary leader of the Quebec Liberal Party by Pablo Rodriguez.[2] She was removed as leader by Rodriguez in November 2025, after Rizqy fired Geneviève Hinse, her chief of staff, without consulting him. Hinse later filed a lawsuit against Rizqy.[3][4]
Personal life
In June 2021, Rizqy announced her upcoming wedding to fellow Assembly member Greg Kelley; this was the first marriage between two sitting members of the Assembly.[5] She gave birth to their first child, Gabriel, on October 6, 2022.[6]
Electoral record
Provincial
| 2022 Quebec general election: Saint-Laurent | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Marwah Rizqy | 14,304 | 49.97 | -12.00 | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Mélanie Gauthier | 4,091 | 14.29 | -0.87 | ||||
| Conservative | Catherine St-Clair | 3,973 | 13.88 | +10.85 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Gérard Briand | 2,840 | 9.92 | +1.30 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Karl Dugal | 1,696 | 5.92 | -0.55 | ||||
| Bloc Montreal | Rizwan Muhammad Rajput | 752 | 2.63 | – | ||||
| Canadian | Myrtis-Eirene Fossey | 533 | 1.86 | – | ||||
| Green | Othmane Benzekri | 439 | 1.53 | -1.45 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 28,628 | 98.68 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 383 | 1.32 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 29,011 | 50.96 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 56,925 | |||||||
| 2018 Quebec general election: Saint-Laurent | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Marwah Rizqy | 17,669 | 61.97 | -20.31 | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Marc Baaklini | 4,322 | 15.16 | |||||
| Québec solidaire | Marie Josèphe Pigeon | 2,458 | 8.62 | +3.13 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Elias Dib Nicolas | 1,846 | 6.47 | -1.66 | ||||
| Conservative | Guy Morissette | 863 | 3.03 | +1.93 | ||||
| Green | Halimatou Bah | 849 | 2.98 | +0.94 | ||||
| New Democratic | Jacques Dago | 432 | 1.52 | |||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Fernand Deschamps | 75 | 0.26 | -0.04 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 28,514 | 98.60 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 406 | 1.40 | ||||||
| Turnout | 28,920 | 50.96 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 56,749 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -10.16 | ||||||
Federal
| 2015 Canadian federal election: Hochelaga | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet | 16,034 | 30.89 | -16.59 | $64,664.42 | |||
| Liberal | Marwah Rizqy | 15,534 | 29.93 | +18.20 | $19,746.32 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Simon Marchand | 14,389 | 27.72 | -3.04 | $47,613.01 | |||
| Conservative | Alexandre Dang | 3,555 | 6.85 | -0.35 | $3,363.29 | |||
| Green | Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny | 1,654 | 3.19 | +1.52 | – | |||
| Rhinoceros | Nicolas Lemay | 411 | 0.79 | +0.26 | $651.34 | |||
| Communist | Marianne Breton Fontaine | 179 | 0.34 | -0.05 | – | |||
| Marxist–Leninist | Christine Dandenault | 148 | 0.29 | -0.02 | – | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 51,904 | 100.0 | $219,682.85 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 877 | – | – | |||||
| Turnout | 52,781 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 82,783 | |||||||
| These results were subject to a judicial recount,[7] and modified from the validated results in accordance with the Judge's rulings. The margin of Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet over Marwah Rizqy decreased from 541 votes to 500 votes as a result of the recount.[8] | ||||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[9][10] | ||||||||
References
- ^ "Quebec election: Saint-Laurent results". Global News, October 1, 2018.
- ^ ctvnews.ca
- ^ https://montreal.citynews.ca/2025/11/18/quebec-liberals-rizqy-fires-chief-of-staff/
- ^ https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/12/17/demission-de-pablo-rodriguez-marwah-rizqy-publie-une-mise-au-point
- ^ Nuptials in the National Assembly: Quebec MNAs Marwah Rizqy and Gregory Kelley to tie the knot this fall, by Lillian Roy, at CTV News; published July 5, 2021; updated July 6, 2021; retrieved December 16, 2022
- ^ Baby in the house: Quebec MNA parents bring baby to legislature in Quebec first, at CTV News; published December 7, 2022; updated December 8, 2022; retrieved December 16, 2022
- ^ "Judicial Recount to Be Held in the Electoral District of Hochelaga". Elections Canada. October 29, 2015.
- ^ "Judicial recount confirms NDP's Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet won in Hochelaga". CBC News. 5 November 2015. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
- ^ Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Hochelaga, 30 September 2015
- ^ Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates Archived 2015-08-15 at the Wayback Machine