Sol Zanetti

Sol Zanetti
Leader of Option nationale
Incumbent
Assumed office October 26, 2013
Preceded by	Jean-Martin Aussant
Personal details
Born	1982 Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada
Political party	Option nationale (2012–present)

Sol Zanetti (born 1982) is a Canadian politician, who has been the leader of Option nationale, a Quebec sovereigntist political party, since 2013.^[1]

A candidate for the party in the 2012 provincial election, Zanetti won the party's leadership on October 26, 2013, winning 67 per cent of the leadership vote against musician and activist Nic Payne.^[1] He led the party into the 2014 provincial election.^[2]

In September 2014, Zanetti published a video on YouTube encouraging voters in the Scottish independence referendum to vote yes.^[3]

He is of Italian and Québécois descent.

Electoral record

Quebec provincial by-election, June 8, 2015: Jean-Talon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Sébastien Proulx	8,214	41.76	-2.74
	Parti Québécois	Clément Laberge	5,894	29.97	+7.49
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Alain Fecteau	2,717	13.81	-6.75
	Québec solidaire	Amélie Boisvert	1,503	7.64	-1.41
	Option nationale	Sol Zanetti	474	2.41	+0.90
	Green	Elodie Boisjoly-Dubreuil	472	2.4	–
	Conservative	Sylvain Rancourt	237	1.20	+0.61
	Parti des sans Parti	Sylvain Drolet	76	0.39	–
	Autonomist Team	Stéphane Pouleur	55	0.28	+0.09
	Parti indépendantiste	Grégoire Bonneau-Fortier	27	0.14	–
Total valid votes			19,668	99.18
Total rejected ballots			162	0.82
Turnout			19,830	43.61	-34.39
Electors on the lists			45,475	–
	Liberal hold		Swing		-5.12

Quebec provincial by-election, March 9, 2015: Richelieu
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Parti Québécois	Sylvain Rochon	7,294	35.98	-3.04
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Jean-Bernard Émond	6,584	32.48	+5.66
	Liberal	Benoît Théroux	5,054	24.93	-0.72
	Québec solidaire	Marie-Ève Mathieu	541	2.67	-2.63
	Option nationale	Sol Zanetti	316	1.56	+0.21
	Green	Vincent Pouliot	352	1.74	+0.58
	Conservative	Daniel Gaudreau	103	0.51	-0.21
	Autonomist Team	Louis Chandonnet	30	0.15
Total valid votes			20,274	98.45	+1.00
Total rejected ballots			319	1.55	-1.00
Turnout			20,593	46.43	-23.57
Electors on the lists			44,356	–	–
	Parti Québécois hold		Swing		-4.35

Quebec general election, 2014: Jean-Lesage
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	André Drolet	11,645	37.27
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Émilie Foster	7,431	23.78
	Parti Québécois	Pierre Châteauvert	6,998	22.40
	Québec solidaire	Sébastien Bouchard	3,626	11.60
	Option nationale	Sol Zanetti	782	2.50
	Parti nul	Sébastien Dumais	384	1.23
	Conservative	Andréas Garcia	77	0.24
	Independent	José Breton	93	0.30
	Marxist–Leninist	Claude Moreau	43	0.14
Total valid votes			31,248	98.65
Total rejected ballots			427	1.35
Turnout			31,675	68.00
Electors on the lists			46,643	–

Quebec general election, 2012: Louis-Hébert
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Sam Hamad	14,602	38.42	-10.43
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Michel Hamel	12,510	32.92	+16.67*
	Parti Québécois	Rosette Côté	8,127	21.38	-7.71
	Québec solidaire	Guillaume Boivin	1,359	3.58	+0.73
	Option nationale	Sol Zanetti	706	1.86	–
	Parti nul	Julie Lachance	226	0.59	–
	Coalition pour la constituante	Guillaume Dion	209	0.55	–
	Conservative	Véronique Durand	146	0.38	–
	Autonomist Team	Hugues Fortin	70	0.18	–
	Quebec Citizens' Union	Maxime Guérin	49	0.13	–
Total valid votes			38,004	99.18	–
Total rejected ballots			316	0.82	–
Turnout			38,320	86.57	+16.22
Electors on the lists			44,263	–	–

References

1. "Sol Zanetti est le nouveau chef d'Option nationale". Le Devoir, October 27, 2013.
2. "Sol Zanetti: L’indépendance avant tout". Métro Montréal, April 4, 2014.
3. "Quebec independence party leader sends message to Scots". Global News, September 11, 2014.

External links

• Sol Zanetti