The results of the Arthabaska by election did not surprise anyone. With one exception: Alex Boissonneault’s victory, the PQ candidate, has exceeded all expectations.
We imagined a tighter duel with Éric Duhaime and the Conservatives, but it is clear that the anti-duhaime vote was much stronger-and above all more profitable-than the anti-sovereign vote, however the favorite scarecrow of the opponents of the Parti Québécois.
Victory
The stars align for Paul St-Pierre Plamondon. From Jean-Talon to Terrebonne via Arthabaska, he continues the electoral evenings like others the victories in series. It would be difficult not to see it, and even more not to feel it. And it would be necessary to be in an Olympic bad faith so as not to admit that it harvested the fruits of a work surgical and relentless field. In politics, the field is not a bet: it is the safest placement.
Chaos
When we say that the stars align for the PQ, you also have to see chaos with its opponents. The CAQ, stuck in scandals, broken promises and repeated crises, can no longer get out of the defensive posture to attack.
The Liberals, they have tried to get out of the political coma in which they have been losing for too long. But between rebuilding funding, organization, activism, ideas and a caucus worthy of the name … Waking up does not mean being ready to run – even less to win – a marathon. The figures from Arthabaska, despite the good candidacy they had, testify.
QS I laughed
And what about Quebec Solidaire? Their candidate for Arthabaska admitted shortly that she would not sacrifice her vacation for a guaranteed defeat. Not very politically correctcertainly, but of pragmatic and realistic brutality – two qualities cruelly absent from the party since the departure of GND.
