(Quebec) Five months after the Parti Québécois (PQ)’s lowest score in the general election since its founding, PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is “calm” about the vote of confidence he will submit to on Saturday.
However, he did not want to set the threshold of support he wants to obtain to continue.
The PQ will meet in convention Saturday in Sherbrooke and it will be the first time that Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon, crowned leader in 2020, will pass the test of the vote of confidence of the members.
In a telephone interview with The Canadian Press, he said he trusted the members and had their constant support.
The rules of the formation provide that the leader must submit to a vote of confidence, an exercise which has sometimes been painful, even fateful, for his predecessors.
Recall that the PQ elected only three deputies to the National Assembly in the elections last October, seven less than in 2018.
The party won 600,000 votes in 2022, or 14.61% of the vote, compared to 687,995 (17.08%) in 2018.
The PQ conventions were perilous ordeals for the leaders.
In 2005, Bernard Landry, who was then Leader of the Opposition, resigned after obtaining the support of 76.2% of the delegates.
In 1996, Lucien Bouchard, despite the aura that surrounded him following the 1995 referendum, won 76.7% of the votes of PQ militants.
But Jacques Parizeau, in 1992, won 92% of the votes of his troops.
In 1982, after threatening to resign, the founding father of the PQ, René Levesque, obtained a score of 95%.