If he himself agrees to have experienced a first year of challenges, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon still enjoys the support of young people from the Parti Québécois (PQ). In a letter sent to To have to, dozens of youth wing activists say with one voice why they “still believe in it”.
Twelve months after the coming to power of “PSPP”, 54 members of the National Youth Committee of the Parti Québécois (CNJPQ) and the Youth Forum of the Bloc Québécois (FJBQ) reiterated their support in a letter entitled “Sovereignists: our way is the maid “.
“Despite adversity, all those who get involved in the Parti Québécois are pursuing their efforts, with fighting spirit and determination, under the leadership of our leader,” they write.
In their eyes, the sovereignist movement is resuming its wanderlust despite a pandemic year which “has not been the easiest for the political parties confined to the opposition”.
“The Parti Québécois, under the leadership of Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, has refocused on its main mission, that which distinguishes it from the other parties represented in the National Assembly: constantly promoting the question of independence”, -on be worth.
Taken at the head of René Lévesque’s party on October 9, 2020, the former lawyer had given himself the mission of uniting the sovereignists, regardless of political color. Two weeks ago, several activists confided in the To have to to deplore the positions on the independence of the new leader.
“What it brings, especially in relation to independence, there is not much new,” said one of them.
Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon maintains that he will make sovereignty his favorite subject during the pre-election year. Its candidates for 2022 will have to have it tattooed on the heart, he confided in an interview with The duty at the beginning of the month.
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The most recent soundings put the PQ in the neighborhood of 11% of voting intentions, on an equal footing with the second sovereignist party in the National Assembly, Québec solidaire. According to projections by the survey aggregation site qc125.com, the political party may however lose up to six of its seven seats in the next general election.
According to Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, the philanthropic harvests of the PQ suggest the opposite. In 2020, the party collected nearly $ 400,000 in donations, more than the Liberal Party and Québec solidaire.
At the end of last year, the PQ had roughly 43,000 members. The party’s office was unable to update its membership statistics on Monday.
According to the letter sent to To have to, the arrival of “PSPP” generated a great deal of excitement around the PQ. “Wherever he goes, our leader attracts many Quebecers open to the question of independence, regardless of their age. Activists take or take back their cards, ”write these young PQ, including the president of the CNJPQ, Marie Laurence Desgagné.
In chorus, these activists call on Quebeckers to give a chance to the “only party” to want to get Quebec out of federalism, to make “a green country” and “to give Quebeckers the truth on essential issues such as the French language”.