Since the by-election in Marie-Victorin, the leader of the Quebec Liberal Party, Dominique Anglade, has not hesitated to lay the blame for her party’s poor results.
The liberal leader tries to save the furniture. Less than six months from the general election, the poor performance in Marie-Victorin comes at a very bad time.
It will be difficult to recruit candidates (especially stars) in the coming weeks.
Moreover, each week, Liberal MPs announce that they will not be running again. Would they leave politics if the PLQ was high in the polls? Probably not.
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Currently, it is the image of the PLQ that is being undermined and not just that of the leader.
Mme Anglade does not always strike for a thousand, but it must be recognized that she picked up a boat that is taking on water. You can’t ask him to perform a miracle.
In Trois-Rivières, today, she will present her Charter of the regions, and will try to reconnect with Quebecers.
Despite his good intentions, it is too late. Quebecers no longer listen to the PLQ’s proposals. They have disconnected from the Liberal channel since the last election.
- Listen to the meeting of political analysts Marc-André Leclerc and Elsie Lefebvre on QUB radio:
To survive
In 2018, for the first time in Quebec in a very long time, the election campaign did not focus on the confrontation between the sovereignists and the federalists. Quebec has thus entered into a new political paradigm.
For four years now, the caquistes have spent the scratch as much on the nationalist ground as on the ground of the economy. The PLQ has not been able to adapt and the pandemic has not helped.
Mme Anglade picks up the pots broken by its predecessors. The PLQ would not do better with another leader.
So Liberals shouldn’t ask themselves if a new leader could revive their party, they should ask themselves if their party deserves to survive.