PHOTO FRANÇOIS ROY, THE PRESS
Fifty-three percent of Quebecers want a reform of the voting system, against 27% of Quebecers who do not, according to a recent survey.
According to François Legault, the debate on the reform of the voting system would only interest intellectuals.
Posted yesterday at 9:00 a.m.
A Leger Poll–The Journal of Montreal shows the opposite: 53% of Quebecers want a reform of the voting system, compared to 27% of Quebecers who do not want it, and 20% who are undecided or did not answer the question.
Among the participants who responded, there are about TWICE as many Quebecers in favor of reform than people who want to keep our first-past-the-post system. It’s starting to make a lot of intellectuals!
After having reneged on its promise of 2018, the CAQ opposes the reform of a voting system which benefits it considerably. This partisan calculation is not a reason for us to stop debating it and convincing as many people as possible.
So that this reform becomes inevitable one day, whether to move to a preferential ballot (our preference) or to add a proportional aspect to our current system (the 2018 agreement signed by the CAQ, QS and the PQ).
The Léger poll, however, hides bad news in the short term: only 30% of Caquist sympathizers want a reform, against 52% who do not want it.
Note to the PLQ, who hesitate to support a reform of the voting system: 60% of your supporters want a reform, against 19% who do not want it. Hoping that the debate has only just begun…