(Quebec) Denis Coderre sees himself as prime minister, but it is not he who will decide.
The former mayor of Montreal reacted Wednesday to the Léger poll published by Quebecor media which suggests a rise in the Liberal Party of Quebec (PLQ) if he is eventually elected leader.
Mr. Coderre has expressed his interest in leading the federalist formation and he should make his decision officially in June, but the opinion survey seems to indicate that he would make the best leader far ahead of other declared or potential candidates, according to the respondents.
In an interview with The Canadian Press, he assured that if he entered the race and won, the PLQ would be the alternative to the CAQ government and that he would therefore have to be ready to be prime minister in this eventuality. .
“I have already been a minister, I have already been a mayor, I have already managed budgets of billions of dollars, if I start, I think that the Liberal Party is the alternative to the next government, so it is certain that if you are leader of this party, you have to expect that [devenir premier ministre]. »
But it will be up to the party and the population to decide, he hastened to clarify.
According to poll data, a PLQ led by Mr. Coderre would obtain 21% of the votes in a ballot, compared to 15% currently with interim leader Marc Tanguay.
The web survey was carried out from Friday to last Monday, among 1,032 Quebecers from a panel, in French and English. This is non-probability sampling. If it were a probability sampling with that many participants, the margin of error would be plus or minus 3.05%, 19 times out of 20, Léger estimates.