The spokesperson for Québec solidaire (QS), Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, refuses to give voting instructions to voters in the riding of Camille-Laurin disappointed with the withdrawal of the solidarity candidate Marie-Ève Rancourt, who was filmed in train to remove a PQ pamphlet from an elector’s mailbox.
“We will not give voting instructions because we trust the intelligence of voters. I trust the people at Camille-Laurin to make the best decision. It’s not up to me to tell them how to vote, ”he said during a press briefing in Quebec on Tuesday.
As a result, the leader of the Parti Québécois (PQ), Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, will have to do without the explicit or implicit support of Mr. Nadeau-Dubois to rally progressive, separatist and environmentalist voters left in the lurch by QS and the win over the CAQ candidate, Richard Campeau.
Faced with the advantage that the withdrawal of the candidacy of Marie-Ève Rancourt could give to the PQ, the leader of the Coalition avenir Québec, François Legault, said he remained optimistic about the future of his political party in Camille-Laurin. “People are satisfied with Richard Campeau’s work. I don’t take anything for granted, Richard is working very hard and I have good hopes of winning Camille-Laurin,” he said during a stop in Gaspé.
For her part, the leader of the Liberal Party of Quebec (PLQ), Dominique Anglade, assured the press on Tuesday that the tactics used by the solidarity candidate in Camille-Laurin or by a PQ volunteer in Masson are “really not in the values” that she advocates. “It’s anything but the values that I advocate. However, she did not want to specify whether she was showing the door of the PLQ to a member of her team who would commit such a gesture. “I want all my candidates to behave well and that’s the information I have today,” she said.
With Alexandre Robillard and Florence Morin-Martel
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