The Prime Minister’s absence from Friday’s debate at the New World Institute (INM) did not go unnoticed. Just like his refusal to grant substantive interviews to the media before the campaign.
On Tuesday, the Parti Québécois bluntly asked him “to stop hiding”. Party leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon formally asked François Legault “to stop systematically avoiding debates and interviews, both for his candidates and for himself”.
“François Legault wants to give the impression that this election does not count. If he could, he would go straight to October 3 and not campaign. He refuses to answer the journalists,” denounced Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon in a press release.
The head of the CAQ is the only one to have refused to take part in the debate organized by the INM and The duty Friday. He also refused to grant editorial interviews like other party leaders.
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon also criticizes the CAQ for not having “shown interest” in another environmental debate and points out that the CAQ candidate in Lévis, Bernard Drainville, “refused to debate” with the PQ MP for Matane. , Pascal Berube.
Asked to react, the Prime Minister’s Office replied that Mr. Legault “has been and will remain very accessible to the media and journalists”. “When the campaign is launched, he will have the pleasure of speaking to you several times a day,” said his press officer in writing.
As for the debates, the head of the CAQ has undertaken to participate in those organized by the Radio-Canada and TVA networks.
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