The Coalition d’avenir Québec (CAQ) will present a candidate in the riding of Marie-Victorin, Premier François Legault announced on Saturday.
Earlier this week, Mr. Legault had already said he would not call a by-election there until early next year, without specifying a date. However, he had not indicated whether or not he would decide to present a Caquist candidate.
PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, who is not elected to the National Assembly, urged the Prime Minister to announce the date of the election in Marie-Victorin, without specifying whether he intends to ‘to be candidate.
Liberal leader Dominique Anglade last week invited Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon to be elected in Marie-Victorin. Ms. Anglade had announced her intention not to oppose a Liberal candidate to Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon, if other parties did the same.
It thus opened the door to respect for an unwritten tradition according to which parties do not present a candidate when the leader of a party tries to be elected in a by-election.
Saturday, before the opening of a general council of his party, Mr. Legault announced that he will go ahead with a Caquist candidacy.
“We left the week to the head of the PQ to decide if he wanted to run,” he said. He wanks in the handle. “
Mr. Legault based his decision on that of Québec solidaire, affirming that he will offer the citizens of Longueuil the possibility of choosing their Member of Parliament.
“We have one of the parties, Québec solidaire, which has announced that they will present a candidate. We have decided that we will present a candidate, probably a candidate, in Marie-Victorin. “
Just as Mr. Legault had indicated on Tuesday, the government will not immediately declare an election.
“We don’t want to impose on the people of Longueuil a third election in three months,” he said. We had the federal government, the municipal government, so it will be after Christmas. “