Paul St-Pierre Plamondon does not want to be disturbed by the “anonymous childishness” of the elected representatives of the Coalition Avenir Québec. “They are frustrated,” believes his deputy Pascal Bérubé.
In national council at the end of a week which saw him table his new budget for year one, Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon responded to the comments of CAQ deputies about him reported on Saturday in The duty.
“Let’s stay focused,” said the PQ leader on Saturday at the edge of his party’s militant rally in Saint-Hyacinthe. “If I start commenting on all the tomatoes that are thrown at me in the coming months, I won’t stay focused. »
In The duty this morning, five CAQ deputies attacked Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon under cover of anonymity. “I see his behavior every day, for me he’s a spoiled baby. When it doesn’t suit him, he sulks,” said one of them. “Discussing sovereignty in this context [de la guerre en Ukraine et en Israël] It’s irrelevant, it’s not the time,” said another.
“What do you want me to do with this childishness… It’s anonymous childishness,” replied Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon on Saturday. His fellow MP Pascal Bérubé, who has sat in the National Assembly since 2007, dared to make a short analysis.
“We read that, then we said to ourselves: well, they are frustrated,” he stressed in the press scrum.
Former Prime Minister Pauline Marois, present at her party’s national council, reiterated the optimism she had shown the day before in an interview with The duty. In a press scrum a few moments before being warmly welcomed by PQ activists, she invited her successor St-Pierre Plamondon to “continue to be frank, honest and honest”.
Since October 2, the Parti Québécois has counted on a fourth MP, Pascal Paradis, who handily won the riding of Jean-Talon, in Quebec.
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