François Legault will probably regret having ridiculed those who have long called for reform of the voting system. Why bother keeping a promise, he said in substance, when the issue doesn’t produce fights on buses? Everything seemed good to him when you could obtain a parliamentary majority of more than 70% of the seats with only 40% of the votes. But if the trend continues, the poll aggregator site Qc125 predicts a fall of the Coalition Avenir Québec from 89 to 11 deputies! Our electoral system can easily produce artificial majorities (like in the 2022 elections) which can be swept away suddenly in the following elections… and replaced by another equally artificial majority: quite a beautiful stability, as the defenders of the system blindly claim. single-member voting system! In addition to encouraging the arrogance of politicians invested with less legitimacy than that which they claim to have, the system deprives a majority of citizens of having a voice that counts in the governance of the State. A poor PQ member in Westmount and so many other voters of all stripes, in all ridings, find themselves literally disenfranchised, with a vote reduced to insignificance. This is what is likely to happen to most CAQ voters in the next elections. They will have run after it by accepting that their Prime Minister, through laziness or for some other reason, does not have the heart to engage in an important project for our democracy.
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