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Lionel Perez, one of the 25 Equipe Coderre candidates to hang on to their seats in the wake of Sunday’s breakthrough victory by Valérie Plante’s Projet Montréal, has taken to social media to analyze how his party so dramatically ran off the rails.

And while Perez, who was executive committee member responsible for infrastructure in the administration of Denis Coderre, remains proud of his party’s record while in office, he is decidedly less so when it comes to assessing his party’s attempt to seek a second term.

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“First, Équipe Denis Coderre pour Montréal (EDCM) ran a terrible campaign,” Perez wrote on his Facebook page Tuesday morning. “Our platform was uninspiring and for the most part limited ourselves to reiterating what our administration had already done or announced — we didn’t articulate a vision of hope for a better tomorrow.

“Our party’s mistake was thinking that because we had an incredible track record (and yes, we did) that such a record would be sufficient to coast across the finish line with the lead. It was a defensive campaign and ultimately the wrong strategy, which ignored the particularity and dynamics of a two-way race where all those opposed to the incumbent can aggregate in a singular ‘anybody but incumbent’ camp.”