Bad news came to the Quebec Liberal Party (QLP) and the Parti Québécois (PQ) Monday, in a by\u002Delection held in the riding of Marie\u002DVictorin, on the south shore…
It looks as though the very existence of the two parties, who dominated the province’s politics for half a century, is under threat. The PQ may disappear because it is obstinately holding on to its separatist ideology; support for the QLP is withering because the party has moved away from its core principles.
Nantel succeeded at maintaining the PQ’s share of the vote , but he was overtaken by Shirley Dorismond of the CAQ . The fact that the PQ’s vote did not collapse was seen as a positive sign by separatist commentators; “the fish is still wriggling,” wrote former PQ minister Joseph Facal in the Journal de Montréal. Still the defeat, when added to worrisome numbers in several polls, is decidedly bad news for the party now led by a dynamic young lawyer, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon.
The Parti Québécois now holds only six of the National Assembly’s 125 seats, and some predict that it will lose most of those seats come October. We will see: the death of the PQ has been announced before; each time, the party bounced back.A nationalist, mostly French-speaking and poorer than average riding, Marie-Victorin has never been friendly territory for the provincial Liberals. At the 2018 general election, its candidate finished fourth with 15.2 per cent of the vote.
The QLP will not disappear, because most anglophones and allophones will still vote Liberal at the next general election; this means that several ridings in the Montreal area will remain in Liberal hands. What does appear probable, though, is that the QLP will become the “parti des Anglais,” with insignificant support from the French-speaking majority in the province. The party could even lose its Official Opposition status.
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