Irritable, arrogant, no longer able to tolerate contradiction, blundering, insensitive to the priorities of Quebecers, sometimes stubborn, with less sure judgment, obsessed with the wealth gap with Ontario, the leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec is a worn-out prime minister .
We would be less: 25 years of public service, several times minister, founder of a political party, closely associated with a major dramatic societal event, Mr. Legault has had a grueling journey, both physically and psychologically, comparable to that of Another servant of the State was René Lévesque.
In the winter of 1985, after a quarter of a century of public service, having been a minister several times, having founded a political party and unsuccessfully taking upon himself the future of a people, the exhausted Prime Minister found himself against his thanks to the hospital. Like Mr. Legault, he had become irascible, intransigent, multiplying bad judgments. Those around him no longer recognized him. Six months later, he left political life, tired of the heartbreaks and twists and turns specific to this environment.
What if 25 years of such intense political life were simply too much for one man?
In any case, with what he is currently showing us, our Prime Minister will have to include several health breaks in the program for his new mandate. To protect himself and for our collective well-being. Unless the frogging starts to take place around him and takes him away (figuratively, let’s be clear) faster rather than less.
It usually begins with replacements of members of the bodyguard, reshuffles, followed by ministers who show their noses by daring to challenge the leadership of the leader and then, and then… the wheel of the political game which continues to turn.