Red square leader thinking of running for Parti Quebecois

Martine Desjardins of the university student union FEUQ, answers reporters questions before entering a meeting with other students unions and the Minister of Education Michelle Courchesne Wednesday, May 30, 2012 in Quebec City. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot

Former student protest leader Martine Desjardins is mulling over an apparent offer to run for the Parti Quebecois in the next provincial election.

Desjardins, who has worked as a TV political panelist since leaving the leadership of the FEUQ group in May 2013, wrote on her Facebook page Friday that she has been offered a chance to run for the PQ and that she has begun her “reflection on this new opportunity.”

Desjardins, who has come out in support of the PQ's proposed Charter of Values, has suspended her activities as political commentator until her decision is made.

Desjardins, who is 32, would become the second student leader involved in the 2012 student protests to run for the PQ.

Her protester-in-arms Leo Bureau-Blouin was elected as PQ MNA for Laval des Rapides in the last election at the age of 20.