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A3 THE GAZETTE. MONTREAL. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1993 II i 1 lissi liiMiiiisit fflgips1 ramif ip mmimi iff JAMES MENNSE THE GAZETTE I ers cleariy and early in the evening. Calls to Savard's headquarters were not returned last night. For his part, Vigneau congratulated Bosse on his win, but was skeptical about the benefits of his promised tax freeze.

"There are already 40 stores closed on Wellington St." because of taxes, he said. "This isn't going to help them and more are going to close come January." Vigneau also doubts that it was Bosse's platform that won him all the support. "I don't think people really voted for the issues in this campaign," he said. "Bosse and his people just plastered their pictures all over town and people just voted for the faces they remembered." city's 1994 budget, he said last night. "Our budget is already made and it should be on the agenda for JMov.

23," he said. "We also, at the same time, want to announce the creation of the job of a commissioner for economic development." Bosse" also said he would stand by his promise to freeze taxes for 1994. "It's a tax freeze and it's a freeze on the next bill that goes but in January 1994. "That's a guarantee we gave the population and we want as much as possible for the next four years to have no (tax) increases in Verdun." Bosse's opponents seem to have gotten the message sent to them by Verdun's vot haven't had any returns, but in the rest we seem to be easily ahead," Bosse said late last night. 1 With 159 of 172 polls reporting, Bosse had 12,747 votes, 7,700 more than the 66-year-old Savard.

Eddy Vigneau, a 69ryear-old businessman and former city councillor who fielded candidates as part of a tax-protest party, was a distant third with 1,726 votes. Bosse" campaigned on a platform of reduced municipal spending to freeze the tax rate, increased housing renovation and giving a boost to local commercial development by creating an economic-development commission. His first priority will be to prepare the On Friday, Georges Bosse turned 50. Last night, he turned into the mayor of Verdun. A Verdun businessman who lost a bid for the mayoralty by 245 votes eight years ago, Bosse last night found himself riding a wave of support that swept two-term mayor Raymond Savard aside.

Bosse didn't triumph alone. Voters also seemed prepared to back up the platform hammered together by his Parti d' Action Municipale as the party's candidates won all of the city council's 1 3 seats. "There are only two districts where we 1 ml I jt. iifiilfin ir i Raymond Savard Ueorges Bosse Morin re-elected in Pierrefonds; Hudson ousts Elliott and his team Anion's Quirion beats challengers but party loses control of council KATHERINE WILTON THE GAZETTE JAMES MENNIE THE GAZETTE Anjou voters last night gave incumbent mayor Richard Quirion a 900-vote edge to squeak by two challengers for the mayor's chair, ending a campaign that was punctuated by claims of death threat? and illegal candidacies. Richard Quirion --St 1 '1 r- 'Jr But Quirion Releve Democra-tique Municipale d'Anjou was limited to winning only five of the 12 council seats, leaving the chief magistrate with a minority government.

Quirion polled 5,849 votes 924 more than his closest challenger, Benoit Corbeil, of the opposition Alliance Plus. Lawyer Tony De Michele wasn't far behind. De Michele, who had publicly complained that the candidacies of three people running for council seats were illegal, polled 4,709 votes. "We'll try to manage it," Quirion said on hearing that he had finished on top, but without a majority on council. "But what can you do? The population has spoken, that's democracy." Quirion, who has held the mayor's office for five years, played down the possibility that party politics at the council table could result in administrative gridlock for the city.

His party dropped one council seat, leaving it facing three councillors from Corbeil's Alliance Plus and four from De Michele's Action Populaire d'Anjou. "We're talking in a lot of cases of the same councillors being returned so it's not really that different," he said. "It's always interesting to have a majority but we've got a minority and we'll have to work with what we have." Quirion said he'll be sitting down next week with the new council and try to put together the city's 1994 budget. Corbeil, who had promised to slash spending at city hall and reduce the number seats on the mu Lachine voters gave Mayor Guy Dicaire a vote of confidence last night, re-electing him over political newcomer Nicole Saint-Germain Belanger by a margin of 4,569 votes. "I have kept all my campaign promises and that's proof that I am the best man for the job," said Dicaire, who polled 8,732 votes to Saint-Germain Belanger's 4,163.

But Saint-Germain Belanger, 36, a former secretary to Power Corp. president Paul Desmarais, said her strong showing is a warning to Dicaire's administration that residents are keeping a keen eye on events at city hall. "His administration knows it will have to be careful about what it does," said Saint-Germain Belanger, who entered the contest after accusing the city of buying off a potential opponent to Dicaire. Community activist Bernard Tisseur had planned to run against Dicaire. But last month, he was hired by the city as a blue-collar worker the day after he was seen soliciting signatures for his nomination papers at a city-council meeting.

Decided not to run for mayor After landing the 1 7-an-hour job, Tisseur decided not to run for mayor. That meant that Dicaire was likely to be acclaimed, until Saint-Germain Belanger stepped in and forced an election, accusing the city of buying offTisseur. Municipal Affairs Minister Claude Ryan has asked his staff to investigate whether Tisseur's hiring was legal. Dicaire, 53, said the city's decision to hire Tisseur was a coincidence and was not a major election issue among voters. "When I said I wasn't involved, I meant I wasn't involved," he said.

"I ran on my record and the results show people are happy." While Dicaire held on to his seat, four of eight incumbent councillors went down to defeat. They are William McCullock, Jean-Marie Bergeron, Pierre Noel and Raymond Golden. Dicaire was first elected in a by-election in 1 992. He succeeded Guy Descary, who died after a lengthy illness. Since then, Dicaire has fulfilled several election promises, including removing meters from parking lots along St.

Joseph changing a zoning bylaw to allow industry to remain in the centre of town and installing an English answering service at city hall. 'We're a bunch of rank amateurs" Elections were held yesterday in four other municipalities in the West Island or off the western tip of Montreal. In Pierrefonds, Mayor Marcel Morin, 60, handily defeated Bart Sellitto, 46, a Baldwin Carrier School Board commissioner. Morin polled 6,441 votes to Sellitto's 3,479. Nine of the 10 candidates from Morin's Pierrefonds Citizens' Party were elected to council.

Morin attributed his win to council's decision last year to reduce property taxes by 3.5 per cent. In Hudson, Mayor Michael Elliott lost to Stephen Shaar, a 46-year-old shopping-mall owner. Shaar received 1,257 votes to Elliott's 755. All six incumbent councillors on Elliott's slate lost to Shaar's candidates. "We're a bunch of rank amateurs with no political experience, but we have experience in other areas and we'll figure it out," Shaar said.

In Notre Dame de l'lle Perrot, Mayor AndrS Aumais was beaten by challenger Denis Laflamme and in He Perrot, Francois Gregoire defeated three other candidates to win the mayor's job. He succeeds Claude Girouard, who decided not to seek re-election. Benoit Corbeil 1 i ti i I r- i 1 i GAZETTE, MARCOS T0WNSEND Re-elected Lachine Guy Dicaire (right) has his hand held aloft in victory by brother Benoit last night. Tony De Michele Council winners in Lachine, Pierrefonds nicipal council, said he would have liked to have been speaking as the mayor of Anjou. but felt proud of the wins his party had managed in three districts.

"When I look at the figures. I came in second but I'm 30 years old, this is my first try at the mayoralty and there wasn't that big a gap between us. "This is a moral victory, especially with the numbers I ended up with." Corbeil, who claimed he had received death threats during the campaign, said he will wait for about a week before decided what strategy his councillors would adopt in their dealings with the two other parties on council. District 2 Moniquc Worth District 3 George Bout ilier District 4 Allyson Murdoch District 5 Pat Mullins District 6 Ren Leblanc District 7 Bertrand Ward District 8 -Serge David District 9 Jacques Bibcau (Action Pierrefonds) District 10 Michael Labelle These are the winners in the races for council seats in Lachine and Pierrefonds: LACHINE St. Ixiuis Yves Lemire (incumbent) Emery-Provost Bernard Blanchet Edgar Leduc Mario Durante Ste.

Anne Jean-Marc Hdtu (incumbent) Pierre Remy Robert Farineau Fort Rolland Jacques Nadeau Williaia MacDooald John 'Hachey (acclaimed) Summeriea Jane Cowell Poitras (incumbent) PIERREFONDS District 1 Eldor Daigneault LA fe mayor's seat in ijuefiec City er mum Peggy Curran's coiusnn is on Page A5 AROUND THE PROVINCE .1.24 22 20 18 '-16 14 4: -12 10 Li- Quebec City Mayor Jean-Paul L'Alli-er kept his seat for a second term of office yesterday and his Rassemblcmcnt Populaire party won 16 out of 20 council scats. Voters went to the polls in 831 municipalities across Quebec to choose local administrations for the next four years. Montrealers wer6 not among them. They will vote next November. The Municipal Affairs Department says that of the 831 towns, villages and cities, mayors were selected by acclamation in 484.

Among them were John Simms in Montreal West and Jacques Cardinal in Ste. Genevieve. In St. Foy, incumbent Mayor Andrde TERREBONNE Mayor Ircnee Forget Councillors Michel Morin, Jean Lavergne. Richard Blanchard, Jeaninc Cossette, Lorraine Begin.

Marc Cam-pagnons, Real Lamontagne, Andre Ouimct. Jean-Luc Labrecque. VERCHERES Mayor Deli Dunn Senechal Councillors Andre4 Desaulniers. Nicole Chagnon-Brisebois. Michel Brossard.

Jacques Larose. Yvan Sabourin. Gilbert Brodeur. CANADIAN PRESS GAZETTE Councillors Francois Lefebvre, Pierre Bertrand, Pierrette Blouin-St. Pierre, Jean-Pierre Lapointe, Mario Larochelle, Michel Arcand, Ernest Larochc, Norman Findlay.

REPENTIGNY Mayor Alain Brien Councillors Andre1 Cyr, Benoit Gos-sclin, Eric Lachapelle, Vincent Cote, Francois Beauregard, Jean Langlois. Daniel Bouchard, Louise BiSlair-Sant, Michel Coutu, Fernand Prud'homme, Diane Lessard, Dcnisc Dagenais, Daniel Labrecque. Boucher had to face the voters, but she'll be back in office for a third term after being pitted against another woman in the race for the mayor's chair. Boucher's party took 1 1 of 12 council scats. In Chicoutimi, Ulric Blackburn was re-elected mayor.

In Sept lies, Jean-Marc Dion will return to the mayor's office. Here are other selected results from around the province: BLAINVILLE Mayor Pierre Gingras Winning numbers Sunday, 931107 La Quotidienne-3 1-1-4 (in order) La Ouotidienne-4 9-7-7-5 (in order) Banco 4-8-9-11-16-21-22 25-31-32-36-41-44 50-51-53-59-60-62-68 Total to date: $17,532,621 ItiW (MB mSii mil For more information on Hydro-Quebec services, get your free Hydro-Guide booklet. Call 1 800 363-7443 7 Hydro Quebec Our Cmuiiiitniciit Is To You.