(Varennes) Prime Minister François Legault did not pay attention on Monday to the complaint filed by the Parti Québécois against two of his ministers in connection with violations of electoral law.
Posted at 7:33 p.m.
The Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, was at the entrance of an advance polling station with Shirley Dorismond, the CAQ candidate in the by-election in the riding of Marie-Victorin, on Sunday, to discuss with voters .
Their presence was captured by a TVA network camera.
The Elections Act prohibits talking with voters near a polling station.
The Parti Québécois also filed a complaint against the Minister of the Economy, Pierre Fitzgibbon, who allegedly distributed leaflets at the door of another polling station.
Passing through Montérégie to present his candidate in Verchères, the former president of the Union of Quebec Municipalities and former mayor of Sainte-Julie, Suzanne Roy, François Legault took with a smile these misbehaviors of his two ministers.
“When I was a minister in the PQ, I also got ‘caught’ because I didn’t know that we weren’t allowed to be close to the polling stations,” he said. first recalled.
He added: “I think that’s what happened to poor Christian [Dubé] who was pissed off about that this morning, I think it’s an honest mistake. That’s all,” he said.