With the coming of the Coalition avenir Québec and Éric Duhaime’s Conservative Party of Québec, we went not from a two-party to multi-party structure, but from two-party (PLQ and PQ) to one-party (CAQ).
With 59% popular support, the opposition parties won only 28% of all parliamentary seats in the elections.
Since any reform of the voting system is ruled out by both the party in power and the official opposition, we must look elsewhere for a way to make our electoral system fair, representative and therefore democratic.
The regrouping of political authorities seems to me to be the only solution. […] Thus, the Parti Québécois and Québec solidaire would have every interest in linking up. By counting the data of the elections that have just taken place, we see that together they obtain more than a third of the votes in 42 constituencies. They win 10 more ridings, for a total of 24. This may not seem like much, but the difference is huge: they would overtake the Liberals, which would make them the official opposition. For the moment, QS and the PQ risk rather not having recognition as parliamentary groups in the National Assembly.
Wouldn’t the Liberal Party of Quebec—whose adjective has no longer been relevant since the mid-1970s—for its part, have an interest in getting closer to the Conservative Party of Quebec, in particular to find a certain pool of francophone federalist voters? They would have won seven more seats together.
Thanks to a regrouping of the forces of the right, those of the center and those more to the left, we would be entitled to real ideological struggles between three formations or political movements. And both francophones and allophones and anglophones could find their place according to their postures and ideologies within one or other of these formations.
Without such groupings, no matter how much we steal all the leaflets of the opposing candidates, it will never be possible to change the government.