By playing the vulnerability card in his speech to the solidarity delegates on Saturday, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois cleverly managed to strengthen the movement of sympathy towards him.
He caused some surprise when he said he had considered leaving his position as co-speaker in light of the disappointing election results and internal criticism.
“The responsibility for these results shocked me,” he admitted more than a year after suffering the setback.
Supporters certainly felt the need to reassure him.
In order not to weaken it.
Not to destabilize the party, which has already been overtaken by a PQ in full swing.
Messages
Some might have been tempted to send him a message given the party’s stagnation after the euphoria of 2018.
“But he’s not the only culprit,” people in the hallways said.
There is no strong male figure waiting on the sidelines anyway.
The activists seen on the sidelines of the congress do not believe that he faked his emotional moment of Saturday, but recognize that with it he provoked a wave of love after a dying year and the attack of which he was the subject in Catherine Dorion’s book.
The co-speaker claims he was “stressed” when he arrived at the event.
“I would have had to be completely detached not to think about these things,” he admitted.
The young faction leader said on Saturday that he had taken on a lot.
Manon Massé also had to miss the last few months for health reasons.
The arrival of Émilise Lessard-Therrien will also be a dose of vitamins for him.
It will also be possible to promote a better balance between the parliamentary work of solidarists and their presence on the ground.
Sure, as the PQ soaks up all the support the CAQ has lost, he realized that he and his new buddy at QS “had to change things together.”
