The day after the election, the leader of the official opposition, Dominique Anglade, urges Prime Minister François Legault to recognize the issues if he wishes to work with her.
Earlier, during a press briefing held on Tuesday, Mr. Legault said he wanted to collaborate with the Liberal leader on issues affecting the economy. “He will have to tell me how he wants to collaborate,” said Ms. Anglade, passing through Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne. I said it from the start, you have to know how to name things and recognize the issues. »
Throughout the election campaign, Dominique Anglade accused François Legault of not taking the labor shortage seriously. However, she said she was ready to work with the Prime Minister.
On Monday, the Liberal Party of Quebec (PLQ) succeeded in limiting the damage by winning 21 seats, six less than when the National Assembly was dissolved at the end of August. However, the party reached a historic low, with only 14.4% of the vote in Quebec.
Despite this weak result, Ms. Anglade believes that Quebecers have sent a “clear” message to her political party: to counterbalance the CAQ in the Blue Room. “Throughout the campaign, people were saying, ‘Who is going to be the official opposition? We were elected official opposition.” »
The PLQ represents the regions, according to Anglade
The October 3 results suggest that the Liberals will have work to do to win back the heart of the regions outside of Montreal.
“Apart from the CAQ, we are the ones who represent Montérégie and Laval,” argued Dominique Anglade. The latter says she wants to work from this for the next 4 years until the next election.
If the Liberal leader had said she was “confident” of making gains in the region, she will only have succeeded in saving the furniture in her strongholds in the Montreal region and in keeping La Pinière and Vaudreuil in Montérégie and Pontiac in Outaouais. In the riding of Hull, a Liberal stronghold, incumbent Maryse Gaudreault was defeated.
In the Laval region, the liberal strongholds of Vimont, Laval-des-Rapides and Fabre passed to the CAQ. Thousand Islands and Chomedey remained red.
Never mind, the leader of the PLQ is pinning a lot of hope on the “new faces” of her party. In Montreal, in particular, the financier Fred Beauchemin will enter the National Assembly as a representative of Marguerite-Bourgeoys. In Bourassa-Sauvé, lawyer Madwa-Nika Cadet will succeed outgoing MP Paule Robitaille.
More details will follow