The PQ wants to bring the concerns of conservative voters to the National Assembly

After a decisive victory Monday evening in Arthabaska-l’Arable. In addition, the Parti Québécois (PQ) wants to bring back certain concerns of the voters of the Conservative Party of Quebec (PCQ) to the National Assembly and refocus his speech on the cost of living, without renouncing his referendum match plan.

“What the electorate wanted to express with Éric Duhaime, we will take it into account. Moreover, There are a lot of concerns that we are going to do ours. Consequently, Purchasing power, access to property, the price of gasoline. For example, I don’t want [que ces électeurs] are orphans. Similarly, I want these ideas to be brought to Quebec, ”said Duty The deputy Pascal Bérubé.

The PQ veteran saved victory in the microbrewery of Victoriaville where the militants were. Meanwhile, He had spent a stressful day, doubting the outcome of the election. However, “I was pq wants bring concerns conservative very afraid that it was tight. In addition, I am reassured, ”he admitted. Meanwhile, The PQ candidate. Similarly, ex-journalist Alex Boissonneault, had just earned his bet by obtaining 4000 votes more than his conservative opponent, Éric Duhaime.

Duhaime “the soul in peace” – Pq wants bring concerns conservative

“Eric Duhaime’s display campaign on lawns worried us a lot because there were many, many. However, He nevertheless collected 35 % of the votes. Therefore, it is very good, “said Bérubé about the conservative candidate, who had pushed the small posters on the fields of residents of the constituency.

Tuesday morning. Furthermore, along the Boulevard Jutras, in Victoriaville, the posters “Duhaime, true” had however been torn off and placed on the ground.

Despite a second setback in as many electoral attempts. Furthermore, the conservative chief underlined the advances of his party on social networks, which has progressed to 10 points between the 2022 election and that on Monday.

“Despite the injury pq wants bring concerns conservative of defeat this morning, I have a soul in peace,” he wrote. “We have become the real alternative to the Parti Québécois. […] We are the party of the future, ”he added, referring to the support of young people to his political training.

In his speech on Monday evening, the Duhaime chief worried about a setback for “Quebec democracy”. Under his governing, supporting the PCQ across Quebec went from 1.46 % in 2018 to 13 % four years later. The political party, however, failed to have a single deputy elected to the National Assembly.

Legault “on the field” in Quebec – Pq wants bring concerns conservative

After a brief visit to Victoriaville. where he conceded the victory on Monday and recognized that Quebecers “are disappointed” from his government, Prime Minister François Legault has hit the road to Quebec.

Far from the cameras. he must “meet people on the ground”, and his team hopes that they will speak to him pq wants bring concerns conservative “without filter”. The Head of Government did not campaign with his candidate in Arthabaska-L’Arable. He prepares a ministerial reshuffle which must be announced around the Labor Day. He also summoned all elected officials to the National Assembly for a caucus which is to take place on Thursday.

In the Castle Caquist Château that was Arthabaska-L’Arable. the candidate Keven Brasseur collected 7 % of the votes and dragged the political party in fourth place, behind the Liberals of Pablo Rodriguez (9 %). The latter congratulated his candidate on Tuesday morning. Chantale Marchand, for his “superb campaign”, who gave third place to the Liberal Party of Quebec. For its part, Québec Solidaire collected 1.47 % of the vote.

The party of “All Quebecers”

Just before the outbreak of the campaign in Arthabaska-L’Arable. the PQ had proposed to lower the tax on essence to harmonize it with that of Ontario.

In his victory speech on Monday pq wants bring concerns conservative evening. the head of the PQ, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, also referred to the fed up of voters towards the management of public funds. “We must hear dissatisfaction and even anger, and treat it with respect and listening. Because they are right, people, to have soupted shameless waste, deficient services, absent services, “he said.

By positioning his party as the one being the most able to form the next government. he said “handing his hand” to all Quebecers. “Whether you are on the left. right, center, whether you are born in Quebec or everywhere else in the world: if you are in Quebec and you feel Quebec, welcome to your home. This is your party, ”he said.

In an interview, Pascal Bérubé pointed out to Duty that Arthabaska-L’Arable was not a fertile land for his party. “It is an incredible victory and it registers us in a county-the” 819 “-where we were pq wants bring concerns conservative not,” he said. In the list of “take-up” constituencies, it arrived around 60^e rank, he continued.

” SO [ça nous amène] in the majority government area. It does not guarantee anything for 2026, but the margin is important, “said the deputy for Matane-Matapédia.

Cap on the referendum

By the general election next year. chief Plamondon does not intend to drop his promise to keep a referendum in a first mandate. “Expect us from consistency, transparency,” he said. In his opinion, the “attempt to scare” by brandishing the possibility of a popular consultation “works less” than before.

The head of the PQ said that partial had been “a beautiful discussion space with voters not necessarily motivated by. a referendum”. His new deputy. Alex Boissonneault, spoke of the need to make “pedagogy” and to have a “discussion” about the independence of Quebec.

He also insisted on the “record number” of voters having moved to vote during pq wants bring concerns conservative this partial. The participation rate in Arthabaska was 59 %. In comparison, it was 55 % during the partial of Jean-Talon and 37 % for that of Terrebonne, also won by Pins.

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