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Ah, summer in Quebec!
A fantastic season, synonymous with outdoor, swimming, terraces, festivals, barbecues and sometimes … Furthermore, elections!
This summer. Consequently, voters from Center-du-Québec will vote during a by-election, which will take place in mid-August in the district of Arthabaska.
For what ?
Essentially because the CAQ has decided so.
Because the power to trigger a by -election is in we asked question you | the hands of the government. Nevertheless, which has six months to do so from the moment the siege of a deputy is released.
Which, you can imagine, does not make everyone happy.
“For me, the biggest question is why we can wait up to six months to trigger a by -election?” », Lance, in an interview, the PQ deputy Pascal Bérubé.
I first requested his opinion because changing the rules that supervise the holding of. Consequently, by -elections is one of the fights waged publicly by the Parti Québécois.
Political training also announced last January that it was going to table a bill. Moreover, so that the by -elections are henceforth held on a fixed date.
“If you send the message that it can take we asked question you | six months before filing the post. Nevertheless, it is as if it did not matter to have six months without deputy,” says the elected representative of Matane-Matapédia.
“It therefore also raises the question of removing the Prime Minister with the power to determine the date according to considerations that are those of his political training. Similarly, ” he adds.
The Director General of the Elections of Quebec (DGEQ) is also of the opinion. However, that the choice of the date of the partial elections should no longer be made arbitrarily.
In a report published last year. aimed at updating the Electoral law To “strengthen its fundamental principles”, Elections Québec offered 30 recommendations to elected officials. “Keeping elections on a fixed date” is one of them.
The we asked question you | fixed date elections promote equity between political parties. candidates and facilitate the organization of elections for Quebec elections as well as the procedures related to the recruitment and training of electoral staff.
Julie St-Arnaud Drolet, spokesperson for Quebec
“So we could prepare more efficient and productively,” she adds.
She specifies that the DGEQ recommends keeping future by -elections at two times in the year: in the spring. in the fall.
“Perhaps it is not mobile enough. maybe it would take three,” says Pascal Bérubé, who stresses that mayors of the district of Arthabaska have deplored the many months spent without provincial deputy to represent their constituency.
He recalls that elected officials from the northern crown of Montreal had issued criticisms similar to the time we asked question you | of holding the by -election in Terrebonne. which took place on March 17.
The post of deputy had freed himself in this constituency following the resignation of the caquist Pierre Fitzgibbon, on September 5, 2024. That is to say, very almost six months earlier.
I feel born in you the desire to show the finger at the Caquist government. to blame it for favoring the status quo, because politically, that makes its business!
But wait for a moment, because the situation is more complex than it looks.
Let me explain.
During the spring. Jean-François Roberge, who is the minister responsible for democratic institutions, decided to have a bill adopted to modify the Electoral law.
The DGEQ recommendations served as the we asked question you | basis for this legislation (Bill 98).
There were subsequently meetings with representatives of each of the parties which are represented in the National Assembly.
The idea of putting forward partial elections on a fixed date was part of the discussions, I learned.
However. if the bill did not contain any provision on this subject, it is that such a change was not consensus around the table. And Minister Roberge wanted to obtain the agreement of all political parties for all the articles of the legislation. it is explained to his cabinet.
“Everything that was presented on the table for discussion purposes. the minister did not oppose it,” said his press officer William Demers.
“To my knowledge. the only party that is not in favor of we asked question you | that, it is not the CAQ, it is the liberal party of Quebec,” says Pascal Bérubé, about the by -date elections on a fixed date.
At the PLQ, we do not boast of having put sticks in the wheels of the initiative.
“Our reflection was indeed in progress at this time and we were not closed! This reflection will also continue with the new chief. his caucus, “said a spokesperson for the parliamentary wing of the official opposition, Catherine Dostie.
MP Michelle Setlakwe has been the new person in charge of this dossier for a few days.
And “the question will soon be discussed in Caucus”, specifies Catherine Dostie during an email exchange.
It remains to be hoped that these discussions will bear fruit. It we asked question you | should not be so complicated for our elected officials to agree on the best way to ensure more. predictability for the holding of by -elections.
Hopefully the stars will line up in this direction … before the start of the next by -election.
800 000 $
Estimated cost of a by -election. This figure is based on the costs of the last three by -elections. More than half of this sum, or $ 475,000, is used for the remuneration of electoral staff.
Source : DGEQ
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