(Quebec) Radio-Canada intends to conduct internal audits in order to understand how it could erroneously declare Marie-Josée Savard mayoress of Quebec, a mess that led to a premature victory speech and ended with the election of Bruno Marchand.
“We understand that this is an unfortunate situation for Mrs. Marie-Josée Savard and her entourage. And we are sorry, ”reacted the director of information, Luce Julien, in a statement sent to Press.
Radio-Canada was the first medium to declare Mme Savard winner Sunday evening. It was very early in the evening, around 8:30 p.m., and less than 300 of the 1,502 ballot boxes had been counted. Mme Savard, however, enjoyed a comfortable lead.
TVA quickly followed suit, as did the print media, such as The duty and Press. Note that the written media are largely based on the large television networks which have significant resources devoted to these decisions throughout the evening.
Mme Savard then delivered a victory speech in a Quebec room, surrounded by his team, which was televised. Except that Bruno Marchand has continued to rise thereafter. He finally won by 834 votes late at night.
How could Radio-Canada get it wrong? What is the method used to declare candidates elected while the count is still taking place? No one at the public broadcaster was available for an interview on Monday morning.
“Our decision-making office followed the usual process rigorously. We will seek the answers to all our questions to explain what may have happened, continues Luce Julien. We will communicate the explanations to the public as soon as we find out about them. ”
TVA still had not responded to Press when uploading.