While the Liberal candidate in Saint-Laurent, Marwah Rizqy, said Thursday that Conservative leader Éric Duhaime has harmed the climate of democratic debate in Quebec, the Quebec Liberal Party announced that one of its candidates has withdrawn from Twitter due to controversial remarks against the chief caquiste François Legault.
Thursday, Ms. Rizqy referred to the remarks of the leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec (PCQ) last June.
“We don’t want grumbling in parliament, we want people with stature, people who want to work to advance Quebec, people who have proposals,” she said at a press conference. . If your democratic legacy is to say that you are going to channel hatred, anger, that is a very bad democratic legacy. Maybe reconsider your reason for wanting to enter parliament. »
In June, during a press briefing at the National Assembly, Mr. Duhaime invited Quebecers to bring “discontent” into parliament on October 3.
“Our objective was precisely to take all this grumbling that was outside parliament, then bring it into the walls of parliament, and that is still our objective,” said Mr. Duhaime.
Ms Rizqy revealed on Wednesday that she had received death threats. She called for better protection, but no procedure is provided by the National Assembly for elected officials who are not party leaders or members of the government.
“Democratic Rot”
In addition, the liberal candidate Claude Vadeboncoeur will close an account on the social networks where he retransmitted messages qualifying in particular the leader caquiste François Legault of “anti-democratic rot”, learned The duty.
The Liberal Party of Quebec announced Thursday that its candidate in Brome-Missisquoi had made this decision.
“These are not the messages that we want to convey or share,” explained spokesperson Jérémy Ghio.
Mr. Vadeboncoeur had reposted on his Twitter account, in mid-July, a comment describing Mr. Legault as “anti-democratic rot”.
In the week before the election, he had also reposted a message indicating that Mr. Legault could be “despised” and that his arrogance was “repugnant”.
This decision was announced at To have to whereas a few minutes earlier, during a press conference during Dominique Anglade’s electoral tour, candidate Marwah Rizqy affirmed that the Conservative leader, Éric Duhaime, contributed to degrading the climate of democratic debate in Quebec.
More details will follow.