Québec solidaire (QS) will not be able to elect all its candidates, but will manage to “thwart the forecasts” once again by bringing to power a new batch of deputies, predicted co-spokesperson Manon Massé on Sunday, during the launch of the political training campaign, in Sherbrooke.
QS is of mature age and ready to become the alternative to the Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ), she launched live from a vineyard in the riding of Saint-François. “Thwarting predictions is the strength of Québec solidaire,” she said, between two lots of vines, under a blazing sun.
For the launch of “the largest campaign of [son histoire] “, the left formation had sent some 75 candidates from all over Quebec. Among them, the former regional director of public health for Estrie, Mélissa Généreux, who will try to dislodge Geneviève Hébert, of the CAQ, in Saint-François.
If it is agreed that “everyone in Québec solidaire will not win their elections on October 3”, co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois intends to “give everything” to improve the fate of his party in the National Assembly. . When Parliament was dissolved on Sunday, the solidarity team was made up of ten elected officials.
“The choice of this election is clearer than ever: it’s to continue or it’s to change the era,” said Mr. Nadeau-Dubois, in reference to the respective slogans of the CAQ – “Let’s continue” – and QS — “Change era”.
“Quebec is going through unprecedented crises,” said the outgoing MNA for Gouin. The cost of living crisis is impoverishing the middle class. Our healthcare system is deeply sick. Our elders are abandoned and the climate crisis threatens our future. François Legault manages these crises as we have managed crises for 25 years. »
QS kicks off its campaign in Sherbrooke before heading to Montreal on Monday. Manon Massé will tour the college and university campuses of Quebec aboard a van, in order to get the vote out of the “under 34s”.
Further details will follow.