The leader of the Parti Québécois, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, persists and signs: he will not take the oath to King Charles III when he takes the oath as deputy on October 21. The newly elected, however, refuses to say what he intends to do if he is refused entry to the Blue Room.
Posted at 11:19 a.m.
More than a week after the October 3 elections and the historic defeat of his party, which has only three elected members, Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon announced that he had addressed the National Assembly to he is allowed not to take an oath to the king.
“I asked to take an oath to the people of Quebec and not to the King of England, and I ask the National Assembly not to take action and to let me sit,” he explained from the permanence. of the party in Montreal.
Asked whether he would agree not to sit if his request was refused, the leader of the PQ evaded the question.
My commitment is to put an end to this allegiance to a foreign crown. That’s what I’m going to do, and I expect the National Assembly not to crack down.
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, leader of the Parti Québécois
Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon added that in the event of a refusal, “when we get there, we will see where we are”.
PQ support
He says he has the support of the two other elected members of the party, the deputies for Matane-Matapédia and the Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Pascal Bérubé and Joël Arseneau.
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon says he has in his possession legal opinions showing that there is no obligation for the National Assembly to take action against elected officials who refuse to take the oath to the British Crown.
Remember that he is not the first to oppose the oath to the monarchy. In 2018, the elected deputies of the Parti québécois had also taken an oath to the queen, specifying that they were doing so “until Quebec is independent”.
Also opposed to the process, the 10 deputies of Quebec solidaire elected in 2018 had agreed to take an oath of allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II, but out of sight.