Paul St-Pierre Plamondon believes he has found a winning strategy.
If the Parti Québécois (PQ) obtains its best results in the voting intentions in almost a year, Tuesday morning, it is because the campaign percolates among Quebecers, evaluated the PQ leader live from Tadoussac, on the Côte -North. “We won’t change our campaign one bit,” he said.
The most recent Léger poll, published in the morning on the pages of the various media of Quebecor, grants 13% of support to the PQ. If it remains in fifth position with regard to voting intentions, the party still obtains its best percentage since November 27, 2021, when it was also at 13%.
Since the start of the campaign, the “PSPP” troop has seen its support jump by two percentage points in each Léger poll. And she can thank her boss, who according to the poll had a strong showing at the TVA leaders’ debate last Thursday — 16% of attendees believe he won the exercise, two percentage points behind Gabriel. Nadeau-Dubois.
“This is the campaign we wanted to lead and this is the campaign that we will continue to lead,” said Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon on Tuesday, while assuring that he would not change “not much” to his strategy for Thursday’s debate.
“I do not need to hide what I think of several files, he chained in English. One thing about René Lévesque is that he was always himself. And I don’t think we should change that at the Parti Québécois. »
According to the Léger poll, the PQ leader jumped nine percentage points and now ranks second among those perceived as the best opposition leaders. As for the Conservative Party of Quebec (PCQ), it obtained the best result in its history with this pollster.
“I am very happy that, for the first time, Léger Marketing puts us above 15%. […] It is also the first time that we are tied for second place, ”observed the Conservative leader, Éric Duhaime, on Tuesday. The Liberal Party and Québec solidaire arrived at 16% of voting intentions in this survey, as did the PCQ.
Literacy workshop
Moreover, concerned about the illiteracy rate in Quebec — 19% among 16 to 65 year olds — the PQ is committed to reducing this statistic by half by 2030. To do this, it is counting on a “national strategy of fight against illiteracy.
“The idea is not to blame anyone; the idea is to give all Quebecers who want it the resources that will allow them to improve their literacy skills, with the aim of opening more doors for them,” said Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon on Tuesday. , in Tadoussac.
According to statistics from the Literacy Foundation, in addition to 19% of illiterate people, 34.3% of Quebecers “have great difficulty reading”. A problem, considering that those “who have good skills in literacy and numeracy can earn twice as much as those with deficiencies in these matters”, said the PQ leader, in Tadoussac.
A PQ government would therefore launch “a major project” to reduce the learning and reading difficulties of Quebecers. This would include the creation of financial compensation for those who take literacy courses, an increase to $460 million per year in funding for the mission of literacy organizations and the creation of a new tax credit “for advanced courses in the use of the French language”.
Further details will follow.