(Boucherville) Faced with a disastrous new poll for the Parti Québécois (PQ), Paul St-Pierre Plamondon persists and signs by putting forward the Quebec independence project. “We don’t choose the era in which we fight, but we choose the convictions we decide to carry,” he said on Saturday.
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In his opening speech delivered to an overflowing crowd at the PQ National Council in Boucherville, the PQ leader did not sweep under the rug the results of the most recent survey by the firm Léger, published Friday in the media. of Quebecor, while his party brings up the rear in terms of voting intentions with a meager 8%.
When asked which leader would make the best prime minister, respondents answered 46% for current premier François Legault, followed by Éric Dumaine of the Conservative Party (11%), Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois of Québec solidaire (10 %), Dominique Anglade of the Quebec Liberal Party (9%) and Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, only 2%.
” Do not be afraid. Walk proudly with your head held high. Walk straight, because you are telling the truth and you are on the right side of history, ”said the leader of the Parti Québécois to his activists.
In a part of his speech where he was addressing voters, Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon affirmed that “the independence of Quebec is necessary and urgent”. In this context, he added, “our message to you is that the CAQ does not need your vote, but Quebec independence does”.
For the parliamentary leader and MP for the Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Joël Arseneau, “the only thing that is certain with the polls is that they will change. We will not be able to give the keys to parliament with 125 deputies for the CAQ. It will not arrive. »
Will the issue of the election this fall be to define which party will form the official opposition? “We can see it like that,” admitted Mr. Arseneau, specifying all the same that he is not embarking on an electoral campaign to lose.
” [François Legault] wants his mandate to be strong. Personally, I hope that the opposition’s mandate will be stronger so that we can precisely confront the government,” he said.