Coderre announces he is quitting politics, leaving with 'head held high'

What was supposed to be incumbent mayor Denis Coderre’s victory party at the Olympia Theatre on the eastern edge of downtown Montreal turned into a funeral wake Sunday night, as stunned councillors and party members watched in queasy silence as the disappointing results kept trickling in.
Coderre took to the stage at 10:40 p.m. before roughly 150 supporters to say thank you to his team and announce he would be leaving municipal politics and not staying to serve as leader of the Opposition.