Far from apologizing, François Legault on Tuesday justified his assertion questioning the election of Paul St-Pierre Plamondon without the theft of a Parti Québécois flyer during the last election campaign.
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“Listen, when you throw rocks… You have to remember, Paul said that we had deputies who were not legitimate in Quebec. What I said was that he was in no position to talk about legitimacy,” commented the Prime Minister a few minutes before entering the Blue Room.
“But everyone is legit,” he added.
The day before, François Legault had questioned the ability of the PQ leader to be elected in Camille-Laurin, without the withdrawal of his united opponent, caught in the act by a camera to steal a PQ leaflet.
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Paul St-Pierre Plamondon had just accused the CAQ of having made a false representation by promising a third highway link between Quebec and Lévis during the election campaign.
“If there is one person out of the 125 here who should not ask this kind of question, it is MP Camille-Laurin. If tomorrow morning, there was an election in Camille-Laurin without the PQ flyer being stolen… Would the member for Camille-Laurin be the member who is here in front of us today, ”replied the Prime Minister .
The PQ leader later called the insinuation “unheard of baseness”.
Undermine credibility
Wednesday morning, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon again denounced the Prime Minister’s remarks.
“It discredits parliamentarism and therefore it discredits democracy,” he said in a press briefing. Put yourself in the place of the people who are listening to this on television, from their homes, there. Is that what we want as a parliamentary system? »
“It’s because clearly the reason he attacked me personally in an attempt to undermine my credibility, to diminish me, was that he didn’t want to answer my question, that’s a way to change the subject,” said the PQ leader.
A few minutes later, the parliamentary leader of Québec solidaire echoed his remarks.
“Basically, these are attacks that are personal, that are low, that are not worthy of the office of prime minister,” said Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois.
The solidarity leader sees it as a “frequent modus operandi” on the part of François Legault.
“As soon as there is a question that bothers him, he attacks, he denigrates, and that does no credit, it does no credit to the National Assembly,” said Mr. Nadeau-Dubois.