Just two days after Hurricane Fiona hit, Parti Québécois (PQ) leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon will be campaigning in the Magdalen Islands. He made the announcement during a press scrum in Joliette.
The PQ leader will make this leap – which is far from being a systematic trip for politicians because of the distance from the rest of Quebec – on Monday. He will be welcomed by his candidate and outgoing deputy Joël Arseneau.
“PSPP” will have the opportunity to see the damage caused by storm Fiona, which brought strong winds to the Islands overnight from Friday to Saturday. It is also expected that the leader of the Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ), François Legault, will go to the Islands on Monday.
Politically, the CAQ and the PQ are engaged in a constant battle in the riding of Îles-de-la-Madeleine. Led by its candidate Jonathan Lapierre, mayor of the Islands, the CAQ team could win the seat in the PQ, but nothing is less certain: according to the poll aggregation site Qc125.comthe two teams are one percentage point apart.
Further details will follow.
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