Just days before elected officials return home for the holidays, popular dissatisfaction with François Legault’s government is confirmed. For the second time in a row, it is the Parti Québécois that takes the top spot.
The opinion poll conducted by Léger and published in the Quebecor media gives no less than 31% support for the sovereigntist political group. For its part, the Coalition Avenir Québec received 25% of the voting intentions.
This is effectively a role reversal since the last Léger survey, published at the end of October. At the time, 30% of Quebecers supported Mr. Legault’s team, compared to 26% for Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon’s.
This morning’s result also confirms the conclusions of a Pallas Data survey published on the pages of L’Actualité at the end of November. This put the PQ at the top of the chessboard, a first in almost a decade.
According to Le Léger on Wednesday morning, almost two-thirds (63%) of Quebecers are dissatisfied with the Legault government’s work. Almost a majority of them (44%) because the Prime Minister “failed to improve the health or education systems”; more than a third (37%) are due to the 30% pay increase that elected National Assembly representatives secured this year in full negotiations with public sector unions.
The decision to grant a grant of up to seven million dollars to bring the Los Angeles Kings to Quebec for two preseason games also failed. Overall, 28% of dissatisfied people say this is the main reason for their disillusionment.
The rise of the PQ in public opinion does not necessarily mean increasing popularity of independence. According to the survey, 47% of Quebecers would choose “Quebec to sign the Canadian Constitution of 1982 and be a Canadian province like the others,” while 34% of them would tick the “yes” option.
Behind the PQ and the CAQ, Québec Solidaire can look forward to an increase of two points since the last Léger. The Liberal Party of Quebec and the Conservative Party of Quebec each received one point less in voting intentions compared to their last results
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