The PLQ has “work to do” to mobilize young people from Outaouais

The 43rd congress of the Commission-Jeunesse du Party of Quebec (PLQ) in Gatineau was far from being full on Saturday. For example, Some party members, for whom the Outaouais has long been a strong castle, do not hide their disappointment.

According to Lina Yunes. Furthermore, a young liberal, there would be work to do With regard to youth participation in this year’s annual congress. However, The rooms of the Canadian Museum of History where the Congress takes place welcomed around fifty young members.

Coming from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. For example, Lina Yunes expressed her regret: I have already organized young congresses, I have been president of the Jeunesse Commission, we have already seen many more young peopleshe said.

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Samuel Moreau. Similarly, who made the journey of the meadow, in Montérégie, to participate in his first youth congress of Plq, estimates that he would have been interesting to have more young people at the annual rally.

For me. it’s just a question of circumstances, among others […]it is especially due to the fact that it is in Gatineau and not in Victoriaville, in Center-du-Québec, or in Montrealarguing that the small number of participants would not be representative of unpopularity or popularity of Plq with young people.

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The 21 -year -old Montreal federalist Victor Mimeau also expressed his disappointment in the face of the small number of young people present. but, despite Our small number is a quality numberhe assures.

Le plq “work do” mobilize young Gatinois Olivier Bélanger. son of the former candidate for the chiefdom of Plq Marc Bélanger, finds it difficult to convince someone who leaves with his family at the chalet to come lock up insideat Congress.

However. he ensures that the Outaouais will be a fertile soil For liberals in the next provincial elections, hoping to win back the four seats occupied by the Coalition Avenir Québec since October 2018. Without being sovereignistestimates Olivier Bélanger, You can be Quebecers and not think of wanting to separate. […] If I vote the PQ. It is that I am a Quebecer, if I vote liberal, it is because I am Canadian. plq “work do” mobilize young It’s far from being that.

At the same time. a few hundred kilometers away, more than 350 young people gathered at the Montreal Congress Palace for the Congress of the National Youth Committee of the Parti Québécois.

This rally reaches a record number of participants in the recent history of the committee.

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The social media strategy deplored

Marc Bélanger intends to present himself in the district of Hull. in the next provincial elections in 2026. According to him, the party would have difficulty in present a vision to young people.

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Social media. this is one of the keys that we have unfortunately not yet exploited in our full maximumconcedes Mr. Bélanger. I think there are other parties that do it better than us.

If we try with the traditional means of joining young people, it will not work, we disconnect. I think the Liberal Party must be more present in schools, in universities, student clubshe explains.