Quebec votes: Party leaders work to get the vote out on final campaign day
Global News
A poll on Sunday showed a picture that was relatively unchanged since the beginning of the election: the CAQ far in the lead, with four other parties battling for a distant second.
Quebec’s major party leaders made one final appeal to voters on the eve of Monday’s provincial election as polls continued to show Francois Legault’s party with a more than 20-point lead over his adversaries.
A poll on Sunday presented a picture that was relatively unchanged since the beginning of the election: the Coalition Avenir Quebec far in the lead, with four other parties in a pack battling for a distant second.
The web survey results released Sunday for Quebecor media properties Journal/TVA/QUB has the CAQ at 38 per cent support, followed by Quebec solidaire, the Liberals, the Conservatives and the Parti Quebecois, each with 14 to 17 per cent. The poll cannot be assigned a margin of error because respondents were selected from an online panel and not at random.
Legault, who was campaigning in Montreal and the Eastern Townships on Sunday, suggested his party was hoping to flip some traditional Liberal ridings to CAQ blue in his quest for a second majority government.
As he toured a market in Magog, 120 km east of Montreal, Legault was approached by a citizen who suggested the party could win a tight three-way race in the Liberal stronghold of Verdun, in Montreal’s southwest. Legault’s party won only two ridings on the island of Montreal in 2018.
“We can win that!” he said. “We’ll win, it’s super.”
He began in day in the Maurice-Richard riding in Montreal, which was held by the Liberals until the sitting legislature member was ejected from caucus over a formal complaint of workplace harassment.
Parti Quebecois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, on the other hand, conceded that a CAQ majority victory was appearing more and more likely. In a seeming admission that he’s unlikely to become premier, he pitched his party as the best choice to present a “strong opposition” to Legault on issues such as French-language protection.
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