A returning officer from Elections Quebec has put a spoke in the wheel for journalists who wanted to take images of Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois voting on Thursday morning.
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Yet the tradition is the same at every election: journalists film and take photos of all party leaders on polling day.
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Monday morning, however, returning officer Marie Vallée interfered with their work by keeping them very far from Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois.
The lady put herself in front of the cameras saying “I don’t care!”.
She demanded that the journalists put their backs to the wall to take their images, preventing them from approaching.
“Along the wall,” she said to the dozen journalists present.
“Ok, ok let us do our job!”, impatient a journalist. “Sit down, settle down” ask the journalists to the woman and the worker on site as Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois shows up to register his vote.
“You are in the process of violating the right of the press to capture this moment”, let him know Hugo Pilon-Larose of La Presse.
The lady looks at him and asks him: “Who are you?”.
“Hugo Pilon-Larose, President of the Parliamentary Press Gallery in Quebec.”
“And I am the returning officer! “, she replied.
A journalist who even tried to resolve the situation was expelled.
While the exchanges continued, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, visibly witnessing the scene, recorded his vote with a smile.
