Activists talk about it in private. The idea resurfaced the day after disappointing results for Québec solidaire and the Parti Québécois. A merger of these separatist formations – although unlikely – would not have changed anything in Monday’s elections.
The duty added up the solidarity and PQ results in all of the ridings in Quebec. Only 5 of them would have changed color in this political-fiction scenario.
All in all, the political table would not have changed. The Liberal Party would remain the official opposition with 21 seats, while the fictitious Parti Québécois solidaire would have won only 19 places in the National Assembly.
This alliance could have won 30% of the popular vote, but would still be behind the Coalition avenir Québec in this regard.
This idea of merger was also firmly rejected, Tuesday morning, by the leader of the Parti Québécois.
“This is not the right line of thought, decided Paul Saint-Pierre Plamondon in front of the journalists. It’s as if we said to ourselves: we have a system bordering on the absurd and what we’re going to do is we’re going to ask political parties that don’t think the same thing to merge because we are not able to give a place to each party in a normal system. The only reasoning that holds is to say that it is a problem with the voting system. »
With Antoine Noreau
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