Le pq rafle arthabaska | Radio-channel

The Parti Québécois (PQ) won a decisive complementary election on Monday in Arthabaska, which places it in good position to initiate the last year of mandate from the Government of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ). It is the third consecutive partial that it takes away, after those of Jean-Talon and Terrebonne.

His candidate Alex Boissonneault was elected with 46.29 % of the vote. The latter triumphed with an advance of more than 4000 votes – or more than 10 percentage points – on his opponent Éric Duhaime, leader of the conservative party of Quebec (PCQ), who renamed 35.13 % of the vote.

The Liberal Chantale Marchand, who had launched his campaign three days after the election, ended in third place, raising 9.28 %, a marked increase with regard to the 3.76 % obtained by her party in this constituency in 2022.

For the CAQhowever, the defeat is scathing. His candidate, Keven Brasseur, only collected 7.20 % of the vote, while his predecessor, Eric Lefebvre, had obtained majorities of more than 20,000 votes in 2018 and 12,000 votes in 2022.

Pascale Fortin, from Québec Solidaire, only collected 1.47 % of the vote, far from the 9.22 % that she had garnered three years ago.

This is a victory highly significantunderlined the PQ chief Paul St-Pierre Plamondon in the speech he delivered Monday evening to the Resto-Pub of the L’Hermite microbrewery, where some 200 activists had piled up to follow the counting of the ballot boxes.

Not only does the election of Alex Boissonneault mark the return of PQ in Arthabaska after more than 20 years of absence, but she adds A centerpiece et another pillar has the solid team that the party wishes to set up to replace the government of the CAQ In 2026, he said.

I have the intimate conviction that we are at a turning point in our historyadded the independence leader, who promises to hold a popular consultation on the future of Quebec if he takes power in the next elections.

The atmosphere was euphoric in the room full to crack.

The conservative chief Éric Duhaime, who had applied himself in Arthabaska, for his part deplored in his speech of defeat that the by-election did not allow the pcq pcq to enter the National Assembly.

You know, this evening, in Arthabaska-l’Arable, a historic opportunity was missed to correct the worst democratic distortion of the history of Quebeche said, referring to the 530,000 voters who voted for his training in 2022 without obtaining deputy.

But we have managed one thing: we have shown that, in French -speaking Quebec, there is an opposition to the Parti Québécois, and it is the Conservative Party of Quebecadded Mr. Duhaime.

Today was just a battle. Yes, we lost a battle, but there is a war that comes. Worse, war is October 2026.

Prime Minister and Caquist chief François Legault, finally, said take note at least disappointing results of the CAQfor which he said to himself fully responsible.

Quebecers are disappointed with our governmenthe admitted, speaking alongside his candidate, evoking Northvolt, SAAQclic and the state of services publics.

Mr. Legault, that said, is committed to make changes. In the coming weeks, we will look in the mirrorhe assured.

The 86 deputies of the CAQ must precisely meet on Thursday in order to take stock of the campaign in Arthabaska and, above all, to debate major orientations that could be presented to the population in the fall. A ministerial reshuffle is also planned soon.

The parliamentary session will resume on September 16. Alex Boisonneault will be sworn at that time and will become the sixth deputy of PQwhich had only three after the 2022 election.

Almost 60 % of voters have spoken

The complementary election in Arthabaska had been made necessary by the departure of Eric Lefebvre, who had resigned on March 18 to try his luck on the federal scene with the conservatives of Pierre Poilievre. He has since won his bet.

With a participation rate of 59.46 %, this complementary election has been the shortest of recent years, ahead of Jean-Talon (55.25 %), Terrebonne (37.29 %) and Saint-Henri-Saint-Anne (31.10 %), despite that it was triggered in the middle of summer.

In fact, you have to go back more than 15 years on June 22, 2009, to find a higher participation rate for partial, or 61.64 %. The Liberal Jean d’Amour was then elected in Rivière-du-Loup.

With Canadian press information