The comedian and musician Pierre-Luc Brillant formalized his candidacy for the provincial elections for the Parti Québécois in front of hundreds of enthusiastic activists, Thursday evening, in Rosemont, in Montreal. One of the only star candidates of the party, he will face incumbent Vincent Marissal, of Québec Solidaire, in this former PQ stronghold.
“We cannot trust the polls”, defended the one who is running for the sovereignist formation, in reference to the voting intentions for the PQ which have remained between 9 and 11% at the national level since January 2022, according to the firm. Light. The candidate says he hopes “a fair share” for his party in the next elections.
In Rosemont, the poll aggregation site Qc125 also ranks him third in terms of voting intentions, at 17%. Outgoing MP Vincent Marissal, from Québec Solidaire, remains in the lead, with 33% of the voting intentions, followed by Sandra O’Connor from the Coalition Avenir Québec, at 28%.
“I had more than enough of people denigrating the party that I have wholeheartedly supported since my childhood,” added Pierre-Luc Brillant – who is entering politics for the first time – to frenzied applause. “Politics has always been part of my DNA,” he says.
Pierre-Luc Brillant claims to want to promote the sovereignty of Quebec and “stop the decline of French”, which he criticizes his united opponent for not putting forward enough. Universal accessibility and access to community housing are among the main issues in his riding, according to him.
“Rosemont has traditionally been a PQ since the 1970s, it’s a riding that I know well,” he said in an interview with the To have to, before his inauguration. In particular, he wishes to “remedy” the “lack of libraries and community centers” in his constituency.
“Pierre-Luc will win for the independence of Quebec,” launched Paul Saint-Pierre Plamondon, the leader of the Parti Québécois, during the nomination ceremony of his candidate. “These elections will do good,” he added, confident of being able to make gains for his party, despite the polls.
Born in 1978, Pierre-Luc Brillant made a name for himself in the cinema from the age of 12, in the main role of the film Money box Combines & Cie by Rock Demers (1992). He has acted in many Quebec films such as The dismantling (Sebastien Pilote, 2013), The Disappearance of Fireflies (Sébastien Pilote, 2018) and CRAZY (Jean-Marc Vallée, 2005).
He has also held numerous roles on the small screen, in series such as District 31, A hard timeor THAT, alongside his wife Isabelle Blais. The couple also form a musical duo, titled Like in a movie. It is also accompanied by his spouse, in a musical number, that Pierre-Luc Brillant launched his investiture evening.