At a time when voting intentions for the CAQ are at their lowest since he came to power in 2018, François Legault will face a vote of confidence with his activists gathered at next weekend’s National Congress.

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The last time the CAQ leader underwent a vote of confidence a few months after the 2014 election, François Legault had scored 97.2%. He was due to repeat the test in 2020 but the exercise was canceled because of the pandemic.

Could his government’s recent about-face on its flagship promise of a third link between Quebec and Lévis negatively impact the outcome?

That’s exactly what two columnists attempted to answer this week on QUB radio.

“I have no concerns about François Legault’s vote of confidence,” said political scientist Marie Montpetit.

Nevertheless, since the abandonment of the 3rd street connection, the former Liberal MP observed that “the pillars of the CAQ temple have faltered a bit”.

“There is no danger for François Legault, let’s just say it, this party is still a man’s party,” said Steve E. Fortin in the same vein.

“Will he now have a Soviet score à la Paul St-Pierre Plamondon? I don’t think so,” he added.

PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, currently benefiting from the decline in CAQ in the polls, scored 98.5% when his campaigners voted on his leadership last March.

The topic “future”

The 2023 national congress of the Coalition avenir Québec will have the theme “The Québec of the future, the future of Québec”.

The first proposal discussed by the activists, namely “to support the construction of new hydroelectric power plants”, is reminiscent of what François Legault put forward in the last election campaign.

As for the end of the SAQ monopoly proposed by the Saint-Jérôme militants, when investigating the funds, Finance Minister Eric Girard let it be known that this was not in his plans. He would still leave the debate to Congress.

A few suggestions on the congress map:

• Build new hydroelectric power plants
• Support the construction of a high-speed train (TGV) between Quebec and Montreal
• Allow right turns at red lights on the island of Montreal
• Allow restaurateurs to require a deposit upon reservation
• Reduce cellular plan costs
• Repatriate Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) to Quebec
• Tax exemption for overtime to combat labor shortages
• Ending the SAQ monopoly

“Arsenio, what?” The total question was invented in A Coruña and Arsenio answered it like no other who spouted his ideas from there. Or not. “What of what? Benito, what of what?” he replied in one of them to Benito Cores, the reporter from Television de Galicia, who followed the team as they tried to make the leap into the First Division. Retranca differs from irony in that one generates sympathy and the other tension. Arsenio liked to castle in the first. Of course he was more direct at times, for example denying the years-burgeoning legend that he scored against Ramallets in his first game with Deportivo and then apologized. The target was hit, although some chronicles of the time attribute it to another colleague, but the apology matter was already concerned that he would not crash. “I’m a villager, yes, but not a fool,” he explained. As early as 1951, the year of his Deportivo debut, it was said that his best quality was his dribbling.

On Friday night and in the rain, a long line of A Coruña sports fans lined up in front of the Riazor Stadium to pay their last respects to Arsenio Iglesias. The parade continued this Saturday morning, hours before Deportivo hosted Alcorcón in a crucial duel for promotion to the second division. The field will be packed: Tickets have been sold out for a few days. The fact that something like this happened at the worst football moment in the club’s history can only be understood from the contribution of personalities like Arsenio. The blue and white club, which has an image department and carefully updates its archives and historical memories, erected a mourning chapel in record time in the area leading from the dressing rooms to the pitch. On the Deportivo bench they wore several wreaths of flowers and a canvas with the image of the deceased Mythos and an indication of the place and year of his birth, “Arteixo, 1930”. Impossible to date the death of a legend.

“My father always said that he didn’t do enough to get it either, but he must have done something,” reflects Pablo, the youngest of his four children. Close by was Emilio Butragueño, who on the occasion was more than just head of Real Madrid’s institutional relations. He was a rival on the pitch and not under his command, having joined Mexico’s Atlético Celaya just months before Arsenio’s arrival in the White House. “His forgiving, humble and respectful manner very much embodies the great values ​​of football,” he said. Talante has plenty of Real Club Celta, who was sent to Riazor, its president Carlos Mouriño, who had traveled abroad, all his staff, a deputy of former players and Kevin Vázquez, one of the team captains. It was then that the memory of the reverential respect that the heavenly fans had for the sports emblem arose.

The rosary of memories and anecdotes about Arsenio followed one another in the crowd. Essential to understand your figure. Even his son Pablo had recently been encouraged to reveal some of these in a special issue of Panenka Magazine, such as the surreal conversation at the gate of old Las Llanas Field with the family of a Basque soccer player he never fielded. “It’s like we’re many this year,” he apologized upon hearing the accusation. “Well, nothing, man, go ahead and get on,” said one of the Basques. And ascended. Other episodes feel apocryphal, like the one that tells of a bad moment in a game and a player asking what to do. “Ide cagar (Go shit),” the technician would have replied. “He says attack,” the footballer transferred to his teammates. You won the game.

But the best portrait of him was drawn by the journalist Xosé Hermida in Arsenio, the magician’s football. It is an essential work, released in September 1995, shortly after Deportivo won their first title in history, a Copa del Rey they won when the club had already presented John Toshack as his successor. “A defeat is more human,” said Arsenio, who was accused by his critics of being defensive in his approaches: “I’m maybe a conservative, what I’m not is ruthless,” he said.

There was a time when Riazor defeated Arsenio. By 1991, he was fed up with struggling for promotion in a context where the side could not strengthen themselves away from home and decided to leave the bench once his goal was achieved. It seemed to be the end. Even then, the new wave of fans arriving at the stadium had associated themselves with that gray-haired gentleman in whom they identified values ​​such as nobility, prudence and retrance. And that he built solid teams that played football very well under the inalienable trademark of order and talent. Perhaps his greatest triumph at Deportivo was the turn from misunderstanding of that old bleachers sector to the affection of a new wave championed by some Riazor Blues forged in the late 1980s watching their teams play, and with a defining motto: ” We’re not ultras, we’re fun.” “No one knows how I feel about these kids, seeing them in front in Spain, shirtless, always behind the team…”. Some of them traveled to Riazor this Friday to pay their respects.

As a result, when the team contracted the flu in the first few months back to the First Division, they had to shed the tracksuit (just the top that used to be paired with Tergal pants) and focus on an agonizing climb up the Betis field. It was there that he finally embraced Uruguayan centre-back Martín Lasarte in a memorable conversation that was captured by a camera located at the foot of the field. “What a pleasure, Martin, what a pleasure. How much have I suffered, my God. I thought I was dying, my God!” he exclaimed. “How much I suffered, Martín” is the motto of several generations of athletes, the portrait of a hobby, almost a way of life. “You have to know how to look back, be careful, know where you’re coming from,” Arsenio explained.

It was unique in that everyone who paraded in the Riazor to say goodbye to Arsenio agreed. He insisted his middle name was Pardo, “not Pardillo.” When he first started playing soccer, he liked Panizo and Zarra, but eventually gave in to Fran, Bebeto and Mauro Silva, whom he described as the best soccer players he had coached. Almost thirty years ago, a journalist from Madrid was looking for this answer in the Riazor press room. The man asked him if this Deportivo was the best team he had ever coached. Arsenio was perfectly clear: “Maybe yes, maybe no.”

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Stone Prince Andrew is booed by coronation crowds as he leaves Buckingham Palace – after it was revealed he will not be playing a formal role

By Danya Bazaraa

Published: 09:49, 06 May 2023 | Updated: 10:11 AM, May 6, 2023

Stone-faced Prince Andrew was pictured leaving Buckingham Palace for the coronation of his brother King Charles.

The Duke of York was driven down the Mall in a state car and sections of the crowd in a grandstand outside Buckingham Palace booed as Andrew drove past.

It was previously confirmed that he would not be playing a formal role at the big occasion – alongside Prince Harry.

The Duke of Sussex, 38, and the Duke of York, 63, will be mere spectators at the historic occasion as they are no longer royal professions.

The two men will also be absent from the procession behind the golden state carriage that will take the newly crowned king and queen to the palace after the ceremony.

Prince Andrew is seen for the first time on the morning of the coronation

The Duke of York was driven down the Mall in a state car

Crowds in the stands opposite Buckingham Palace ahead of the coronation

That means they’ll also miss stepping out onto the palace balcony for a traditional post-service photo op.

Prince Andrew and Princess Anne enjoyed dinner at the Mayfair Club Oswald last night.

Yesterday the prince appeared to be boisterous in the cold as he rode alone around the grounds of Windsor Castle while the rest of the royal family rehearsed for the coronation.

The Duke of York was pictured in his Range Rover at the Berkshire historic site just 24 hours before his brother was due to be crowned king.

Meanwhile, Charles, Queen Consort Camilla and Prince William were all back at Westminster Abbey for more rehearsals for the big day.

Prince Andrew retired from public life following his November 2019 Newsnight interview and the uproar over his friendship with pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The late Queen’s disgraced second son paid millions to settle a civil sexual assault case against a woman he claimed he never met.

Virginia Giuffre sued him for allegedly sexually assaulting her when she was 17 after she was trafficked by Epstein. Andrew denied the claims.

Prior to his court settlement, his mother stripped him of all his honorary military posts, including colonel in the Grenadier Guards, and he abandoned his HRH style.

King Charles III leaves St James’ Palace and travels to Buckingham Palace ahead of his coronation at Westminster Abbey

A general view of Westminster Abbey prior to the coronation of King Charles III. and Queen Camilla

Members of the public brave the rain to feel a part of the celebrations today

Crowds in rain ponchos in the stands opposite Buckingham Palace

King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla have arrived at Buckingham Palace as the world awaits his historic coronation.

The monarch smiled to huge crowds who cheered wildly and waved flags as he was swept into his home in central London at 9am – 90 minutes before the start of the procession.

On the short drive from St James’ Palace, the 74-year-old king looked solemn and thoughtful at times on what was undoubtedly the biggest day of his life. Senior members of the royal family arrived about 20 minutes later, including Prince Andrew.