Whether the Parti Québécois wins or not on Monday in Arthabaska, one thing is certain. By the October 2026 elections, his chief Paul St-Pierre Plamondon will not struggle to recruit quality candidates.
The jump for the PQ in Arthabaska by Alex Boissonneault, a respected ex-journalist saying of “center right”, is already proof.
The PQ dominating polls for almost two years, it is true that the sweet scent of a possible electoral victory attracts good candidates better than the persistent end of regime smell to the Legault government.
Major change
Another reason for which we are talking about is the choice of PSPP to replace the sovereignist option at the center of PQ’s political discourse. A major change since it had been put aside since the 1995 referendum.
In doing so, in addition to the failure of the third autonomist CAQ, this return will also help to recruit future candidates for whom the sovereignist project deserves to be dusted.
The multiple social crises that gets into it, especially in health, housing and roaming, could also push others to present themselves for the PQ in the hope of trying to repair all these broken pots.
From 1976 to 2026
It is therefore without surprise that the Dre Mélissa Généreux, former Candidate of Québec Solidaire and expert in public health, would think, according to the Canadian press, to the possibility of presenting itself in 2026 for the PQ.
Which, at the same time, would suggest another return to the PQ: that of an extended coalition of women and men identifying from the right to the left on social issues, but gathered by the project of sovereignty.
I say “return” because in 1976, at least under the first mandate of René Lévesque, that was precisely the case.
However, despite the presence at the time of ministers covering a broad ideological spectrum, the legislative action of the Lévesque government from 1976 to 1981 nevertheless very clear in the social democratic corner of the arena.
What will he be in 2026, fifty years later, for the new team of Paul St-Pierre Plamondon if it is brought to power? To follow.
