(Quebec) Less than a week before the by-election in Jean-Talon and faced with a poll which once again places the Parti Québécois (PQ) in a position of strength in the capital, the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) cancels for a second Wednesday in a row its caucus of deputies. She invites her elected officials to go door-to-door in the streets of Quebec to promote the CAQ candidate.
In Parliament on Wednesday, the results of the most recent survey from the Léger firm, published in The Quebec Journal, generated several corridor discussions. At the provincial level, the CAQ remains in first position in voting intentions, with 34% (compared to 37% in the last poll, on August 21), followed by the Parti Québécois at 22% (22% on August 21). ), Quebec Solidaire at 17% (15% on August 21), the Liberal Party at 14% (12% on August 21) and the Conservatives of Éric Duhaime at 12% (11% on August 21).
On the other hand, in the metropolitan region of Quebec, the party of Prime Minister François Legault is falling in voting intentions. The Caquists now obtain 23%, or 10 percentage points less than during the last survey, while the PQ maintains its support with 30%, a slight decline of 1%.
For its part, the solidarity troops of Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois gain 7 percentage points in this new poll, to establish its mark at 20%, while the conservatives obtain a growth of 5 percentage points, with a score of 21%. The Liberals bring up the rear at 6% of voting intentions, down 1%.
The Léger firm explains in Quebecor media that these results are taken from a web survey carried out from September 22 to 25 among 1,028 respondents with the right to vote. “It is not possible to calculate a margin of error on a sample drawn from a panel, but for comparison, the maximum margin of error for a sample of 1028 respondents is ± 3.06%, and this 19 times out of 20,” we specify in The Quebec Journal.
Elected officials speak out
Intercepted before question period, Minister Martine Biron of the CAQ caucus of the greater Quebec region assured that she did not smell of hot soup. “You have to work to get what you want,” she said, adding that she would go door-to-door again Wednesday evening. The CAQ caucus had mobilized its elected officials last Wednesday, when the Prime Minister was in New York, and will do so again this Wednesday, since François Legault left Quebec in order to make an announcement on Thursday concerning the battery sector.
PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon was all smiles during a press scrum before the question period.
“With the figures we see for the Quebec region, it makes you want to go vote. The CAQ, obviously, is not unbeatable, and it is in the ballot box that it will be played out,” he said.
Even if he comes in third place in voting intentions in Greater Quebec, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois of Québec solidaire highlighted the growth of seven percentage points for his party between the poll published Wednesday and the one that preceded it, in last August.
“The party that is growing the most in Quebec is Québec solidaire. This is proof that Quebecers’ priorities are not toilets. It’s the housing crisis and the cost of living,” he said, sending an arrow to the Legault government regarding its ban on converting toilet blocks into mixed toilets in schools.
Before returning to the Blue Room on Wednesday, PQ MP Pascal Bérubé, for his part, criticized the Coalition Avenir Québec, in the context where The Press quoted the chief government whip, Éric Lefebvre, telling citizens in his door-to-door campaign that his candidate would have access to the Prime Minister every Wednesday, during the MPs’ caucus.
“Say that, then vote the right way, or you will be advantaged on the side of power, that doesn’t happen,” he said.