The economy was on everyone’s lips, Wednesday evening, during the announcement of 5 new candidacies of the Liberal Party of Quebec (PLQ) in the region of Quebec and Chaudière-Appalaches. “It’s not true that everything is fine,” said Liberal MP Marc Tanguay, about the cost of living.
The Liberals have presented 96 candidates out of 125 so far, a few days before the start of the election campaign. A hundred activists attentive to the speeches were present in the overheated room of the Auberge Québec hotel. Liberal leader Dominique Anglade was however absent.
“In baseball, my favorite sport, a wise man said it’s not because you’re trailing 7-0 after 3 innings that you can’t win,” illustrated Michel Bureau, Liberal candidate in Charlevoix-Côte. -de-Beaupre. “Anything is possible,” he added, recalling the victory of Liberal Caroline Simard against Pauline Marois in 2014.
The jurist and lawyer by training Wafa Oueslati will represent the PLQ in the riding of Chutes-de-la-Chaudière, located in the Chaudière-Appalaches region. She describes herself as an “activist for secularism and women’s rights”. “Within the Liberal Party of Quebec, we are aware that the economy is not doing well. The Quebecer is not well. Politics itself is not going well. »
The economist Ahmed Lamine Touré will try to win Taschereau, a constituency left vacant by the solidarity deputy Catherine Dorion. “We know it will be a tough campaign,” said the Liberal candidate. “But I am not a man of renunciation. »
The chemist and businessman Mustapha Berri will cross swords in Montmorency with the current CAQ member Jean-François Simard, the conservative Mylène Bouchard and the candidate of Québec solidaire (QS) Annie-Pierre Bélanger.
Mechanical engineer Mahamadou Sissoko will be a candidate in Charlesbourg, a constituency held by the CAQ Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Jonathan Julien.
More details will follow.