In Arthabaska, the team of Éric Duhaime “lined” the constituency of electoral signs, said Pierre-Antoine Gosselin, of VAT, yesterday.
Obviously, the opponents denounce. The former deputy for the PQ François Gendron, who came to campaign with candidate Alex Boissonneault, has scandalized this “shameless waste”.
Efficiency?
The massive display is a demonstration of force which can certainly mark the spirits. Especially when, as in certain villages of Arthabaska, it was the voters themselves who have planted pro-Duhaime posters on their own land.
However, it is difficult to determine the effect of the display “scientifically”. Each election, citizens are sorry for its omnipresence. In the digital age, they say, we should leave the public space quiet. I do not agree: contemporary social networks burst the social body. The electoral display is a concrete reminder, in our landscapes, that we form political societies; have choices to make collectively.
In addition, in 2022, the PCQ had boasted of having won “the war of the display” in several constituencies. However, he won none.
When we highlight this fact, Duhaime’s party reminds us of having obtained 530,786 votes throughout Quebec. Almost as much as the PLQ (which, with its 591,077 votes, formed … the official opposition).
Without “aggressive” display, would the PCQ have collected as many supports in 2022?
Vote against
Some of the opponents of the PCQ believe that the ubiquitous aspect of the Duhaime face will bring them votes: “I don’t know who I will vote for, but I know who!” Duhaime! ” would be a sentence often heard, especially in Victoriaville, in door-to-door.
This is-remember-one of the most honest politicians in Quebec, according to the last list of personalities (with P. Hairyvre and F. Legault). One of his former advisers, Raffael Cavaliere, who slammed the party door in 2023, even qualified publicly from “fundamentally dishonest”!
The PQ, PLQ and QS therefore court anti-duhaime vote as much as anti-caq voting, another great determinant of this election.
The CAQ will find it difficult to convince anti-duhaime, since it herself hunted on conservative lands in 2016, 2018 and 2022, with Eric Lefebvre (since April Deputy Blue to the Federal).
Polarizing character, Duhaime also has his ardent disciples, especially outside the center of the constituency, in Plessisville in particular, which guarantees him a solid base.
Pont
Prudent, at the PQ, it is repeated that it will be “tight”. The five members of the Caucus also stay in Arthabaska until the evening of the vote. They hope to prevail by tabling on the anti-caq and the anti-duhaime, by winning the nationalist background.
Hence the presence of gendron and the public support of other alumni, the PQ deputy Jacques Baril in the primary. We argue that several new young sovereignists have decided to work in the Boissonneault campaign. “There is a bridge between generations,” said a piquist full of hope.