François Legault is now second to the Parti Québécois, according to a new poll, and is committed to “doing better” to regain the trust of Quebecers who are “angry” with him, the CAQ leader acknowledges.
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“I am very aware that Quebecers are angry with me and I will try to do better to regain their trust,” briefly commented the prime minister, whose party is at 24%, according to a Pallas Data poll published on Wednesday. of votes has fallen in L’Actualité.
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon’s troops now receive the support of 30% of Quebecers surveyed. For the CAQ, this represents a 10-point drop compared to the previous survey conducted by the same company in September last year. Liberals and Solidarity are competing for third and fourth place with 16% support each.
Many reasons
When François Legault was interviewed by journalists before his visit to the Salon Bleu, he did not want to rely on one file rather than another to explain his ancestry.
“I don’t want to start playing analyst, there are a number of reasons for that,” said Coalition leader Avenir Québec.
Quebecers “are not happy with my decisions,” he added in English.
Treasury Secretary Eric Girard, interviewed in turn, refused to say whether his controversial subsidy to the Los Angeles Kings was contributing to the decline in support for the CAQ. “As you know, I have not commented on the polls before, I will not comment on them now,” Mr Girard said, reiterating that he accepted his decision.
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“Yes, we still feel a certain dissatisfaction,” reacted Laviolette-Saint-Maurice MP Marie-Louise Tardif upon her arrival at the caucus.
Most of his colleagues refused to comment on the results of this new poll, which are anything but positive for their party, which a year earlier had won an overwhelming majority of 90 MPs. There are now 89 since their defeat in the Jean-Talon constituency, which the PQ Pascal Paradis won on October 2nd.
A first for 10 years
This is the first time in 10 years that the Parti Québécois has topped voting intentions.
“Well, it’s the first time, it had to happen one day,” grumbled the CAQ MP for Vanier-Les Rivières, Mario Asselin.
“There is nothing special to say, it goes, it comes, it rises, it falls, that is life,” he philosophized when asked about the survey by the parliamentary press.
While he also feels “a little bit” of anger locally, he sees no connection to his government’s about-face on the road component of the Quebec-Lévis tunnel project.
“We have a steady increase,” noted PQ MP Pascal Bérubé. […] It encourages us. […] It reflects what we hear from the public. A credible alternative is emerging. But our challenge is to be good for Quebecers every day.”
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