Former Quebec NDP MP to run for Greens

MONTREAL — A former New Democrat MP from Quebec is joining the Green Party.
Sources say Green Party leader Elizabeth May will announce in Montreal today that Jose Nunez-Melo will run under the Green banner in the new suburban Montreal riding of Vimy.
Nunez-Melo was elected to the House of Commons in 2011 as part of the orange wave that swept Quebec.
But Montreal’s La Presse reported earlier this month that Nunez-Melo became embroiled in a dispute with the party over the nomination in the new riding.
The newspaper quoted Nunez-Melo as saying he was blocked from running by party brass.
Nunez-Melo, who came to Canada in 1990 from the Dominican Republic, is one of only a handful of Hispanic Canadians who have sat in the House of Commons.

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