Quebec election: Once a major force, Parti Québécois risks finishing with one seat
As Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon launched his party’s election campaign, he described his candidates as a “Cinderella team” that would go further than people expect.Once the voice of a generation of Quebec sovereigntists, the PQ is polling in last place among the five major parties and pollsters predict it will win one seat in the Oct. 3 election: the riding of Matane-Matapedia, on the lower shore of the St. Lawrence River.
In the province’s last election, in 2018, around 41 per cent of people who voted for the PQ four years earlier instead chose one of those two parties, she said, adding that two-thirds of those voters backed the CAQ. Last election was the first time the PQ received less than 20 per cent of the popular vote since the party’s founding in the late ’60s and was the second election since 1973 that did not result in the PQ forming government or the official Opposition.
St-Pierre Plamondon, who has never held a seat in the legislature, said success for the PQ in October means growing the party and surprising people. The PQ has few options this election campaign other than focusing on Quebec sovereignty, said Philippe J. Fournier, who runs poll aggregating website QC125.com.
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