Who will replace Trudeau as Canada’s Liberal party leader?

With Trudeau’s nine-year stint as prime minister ending, several politicians are frontrunners to take over his role.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will resign in the coming months after nine years in power, bowing to legislators alarmed by his Liberal Party’s miserable pre-election polling numbers.

Trudeau, the 53-year-old son of Pierre Trudeau, one of Canada’s most famous prime ministers, became deeply unpopular with voters over a range of issues, including the soaring cost of food and housing, as well as surging immigration.

He also was unable to recover after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, long one of his most powerful and loyal ministers, resigned from the Cabinet last month.

Trudeau said on Monday he would stay on both as prime minister and Liberal head until the party chooses a new leader to take it into the next election, which must be held by late October this year.

The Liberals need to elect a new leader before Parliament resumes on March 24 because all three opposition parties said they plan to use a no-confidence vote against the Liberal party at the first opportunity, which would trigger an election. The new leader might not be prime minister for long.