The Parti Québécois (PQ) invited its 127 candidates to a post-election meeting on Friday at a hotel in Drummondville.
It will be an opportunity to discuss the good and bad deeds of the election campaign, which ended Monday with the election of a PQ minority government.
On Monday, the Parti Québécois (PQ) formed a minority government, electing 59 members, compared to 40 for the Liberal Party, 19 for the Conservative Party and 9 for Québec solidaire.
The Coalition Avenir Québec, for its part, was completely wiped off the map, having failed to elect even a single member of parliament.
In his speech on Friday, St-Pierre Plamondon stated that the post-mortem meeting should also serve to explain “the course of events in the coming weeks”.
“We will adopt a collaborative stance,” he said. “Will this outstretched hand be accepted by the other parties? That is not within our control.”
“This also gives us the obligation to remain mobilized for an election campaign not in the short term but eventually,” he added.
The average lifespan of a minority government is 18 to 24 months.
Failure in Quebec: Gariépy blames the third link
Defeated candidates such as Alex Boissonneault (Arthabaska) and Pascal Paradis (Jean-Talon) could be called upon to contribute before the next election battle.
“My goal is to serve Quebec,” Boissonneault told reporters, while Paradis preferred to avoid the cameras.
One thing is certain: the Quebec City region, where the PQ is absent, will have to be represented in one way or another, according to the re-elected MNA for Terrebonne, Catherine Gentilcore.
“At no time is there any question of abandoning the people of the National Capital Region,” she said. “The transition committee is looking at the best way to represent them.”
“We are here to represent… not me… the PQ… the PQ family… the idea is to represent the entire population,” Boissonneault stammered.
He explained that, four days after his defeat, he was still “adapting his language”.
The PQ was sanctioned in Quebec City because of its position on the third Quebec-Lévis link, said François Gariépy, the defeated candidate in Charlevoix—Côte-de-Beaupré.
Let us recall that at the end of the campaign, St-Pierre Plamondon announced that a third link would not be built in the first mandate of a PQ government.
“I think some people were disappointed to see that nothing was promised for four years,” Gariépy analyzed in a press scrum on Friday.
“To see that for four years, we might have a reflection, or at least a status quo, I think that displeased the people of Quebec,” he added.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
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