LAVAL | While the Parti Québécois is experiencing an upward trend in its support, François Legault maintains the vagueness on the position he would take in the event of another referendum on sovereignty.
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The outgoing Prime Minister initially refused to answer this question Thursday evening during the second leaders’ debate. Relaunched on Friday, he rejected journalists who questioned him about it.
“We don’t want a referendum. I will not change my answer, you can ask twenty times if you want, we do not want a referendum, ”retorted the chief caquiste, passing through Laval.
However, in the past, François Legault has already said that he would “vote no” to another referendum to make Quebec a country. During the first leaders’ debate, the outgoing Prime Minister even made a federalist profession of faith, affirming that the Liberal Party no longer had the “monopoly of being against sovereignty”.
Remember that a significant portion of voters supporting the CAQ are former sovereignists.
For the past few days, the polls have shown a slight increase in voting intentions in favor of the troops of Paul St-Pierre Plamondon. Still dead last, the PQ has nevertheless seen its support increase by four points since the start of the electoral campaign, revealed the last sounding of the firm Léger.
Thursday evening, the PQ leader called on the sovereignists to return to the fold. “(François Legault), you pride yourself on being not only a federalist, but on being the most federalist. Your project is to put an end to the independence of Quebec, mine is to revive it,” insisted the PQ leader.
Asked about the fact that the outgoing prime minister avoids saying whether he would vote yes or no to a possible referendum on sovereignty, the conservative leader Éric Duhaime affirmed that Mr. Legault “has a big problem”.
“He has a base that is 50% federalist then a 50% sovereignist base. He does not want to displease anyone (…) Mr. Legault is taken with his own contradictions and his own internal divisions”.
– With the collaboration of Taïeb Moalla