Now second behind the Parti Québécois, according to a new survey, François Legault is committed to “doing better” to regain the trust of Quebecers who “are angry” with him, recognizes the CAQ leader.
“I am very aware that Quebecers are angry with me and I will try to do better to regain their confidence,” briefly commented the Prime Minister, whose party has fallen to 24% support in voting intentions, according to a Pallas Data probe published Wednesday in News.
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon’s troops now obtain the support of 30% of Quebecers surveyed. For the CAQ, this is a drop of 10 points compared to the previous survey conducted by the same firm last September. Liberals and Solidarity are competing for third and fourth positions, each with 16% support.
Many reasons
Questioned by journalists before going to the Salon Bleu, François Legault did not want to put his finger on one file more than another to explain his descent.
“I don’t want to start playing analyst, it’s a set of reasons,” said the leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec.
Quebecers “are not happy with my decisions,” he added in English.
“Yes, we still feel a certain discontent,” reacted the member for Laviolette–Saint-Maurice, Marie-Louise Tardif, upon her arrival at the Caucus caucus.
Most of his colleagues refused to comment on the results of this new poll, which is far from being positive for their party, which a year earlier obtained an overwhelming majority with 90 deputies. There are now 89 of them, since their defeat in the Jean-Talon constituency, won by the PQ Pascal Paradis on October 2.
A first in 10 years
This is the first time in 10 years that the Parti Québécois has found itself at the top of voting intentions.
“Well yes, it’s the first time, it had to happen one day,” railed the CAQ MP for Vanier–Les Rivières, Mario Asselin.
“There is nothing special to say, it goes, it comes, it goes up, it goes down, that’s life,” he philosophized, when questioned by the parliamentary press about the poll.
Even if he also feels “a little bit” of anger on the ground, he sees no link with his government’s about-face in the face of the road component of the tunnel project between Quebec and Lévis.