(Quebec) The CAQ candidate in the riding of Sherbrooke, Caroline St-Hilaire, demands that Quebec solidaire (QS) call its volunteers to order, while activists distribute partisan leaflets near polling places.
Posted at 2:24 p.m.
While students can vote on campuses over the next few days, Mme St-Hilaire denounces that members of the team of her main opponent, outgoing MP Christine Labrie, do not respect, according to her, the Election law.
“I think it’s time for M.me Labrie calls his world to order. No one is above the law,” said the Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ) candidate on Tuesday. The Press.
In Quebec, “Polling places must be neutral and impartial. […] The Election Act regulates the presence of certain people, as well as partisan advertising on the premises of a polling station,” explains Élections Québec.
“The premises of a polling station include the polling place, that is to say the building where the polling station is located, and any neighboring place from which voters could perceive a sign or partisan publicity,” it adds.
According to Caroline St-Hilaire, QS volunteers do not respect this rule. The CAQ team also claimed to have filed a complaint with the returning officer.
“At Québec solidaire, either they don’t care or they think they are above the law. When Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois lectures us, lectures us by saying that he does politics differently, I rather have the impression that it’s a lot of the old ways of doing things, ”she said. said.
On the side of Québec solidaire, the party rejects these accusations and affirms that it “did not organize any distribution of leaflets in the polling pavilions of the University of Sherbrooke”.
Tight fight in the region
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Christine Labrie, Quebec solidaire candidate
The co-spokesperson and outgoing parliamentary leader of QS, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, will travel to Sherbrooke again on Tuesday to participate in an activist activity in the riding of Saint-François.
The left-wing party has been putting a lot of energy into this city in the Eastern Townships since the beginning of the campaign, where it is trying to maintain its gains in the riding of Sherbrooke, by getting Christine Labrie re-elected, and to delight the neighboring riding with the candidacy by Mélissa Généreux, medical specialist in public health.
By presenting the former mayor of Longueuil and former commentator at The Jousting, Caroline St-Hilaire, the CAQ is also working hard in Sherbrooke to get their star candidate elected. According to the Qc125 electoral projections site, Mme St-Hilaire would have a slight lead (37%) over its solidarity rival (33%) in the race that leads them to voting day, October 3.