“The Parti Québécois is doing very well”, judge Alexandre Leduc

Although the Parti Québécois said it was disappointed with the budget presented to it, Quebec Solidaire for its part was satisfied with the deal reached and judges, given precedent, benefited the PQ.

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In an interview with TVA Nouvelles, Quebec Solidaire’s parliamentary leader Alexandre Leduc felt he was happy with the budget and questions he was able to get for his party after tumultuous negotiations with the coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ).

“That’s for sure. Remember at the beginning, a few days after the election, people were already starting to discuss this and we heard rumblings that Quebec Solidaire, even the Parti Québécois, might not have recognition. That means less speaking time, less budgets, maybe no direct questions to the prime minister. So we Very worried, but in the end we concluded the exercise with full and complete recognition of Quebec Solidaire,” Mr. Leduc said.

Each party’s speaking time at the end of the 2022 Quebec general election will differ from subsequent votes.

The Liberal Party of Quebec (PLQ) won 14% of the vote, 21 seats, 62 questions every 10 days.

Québec Solidaire (QS) received 15% of the vote, 11 seats, 31 questions every 10 days.

The Parti Québécois (PQ) gained 14% of the vote, 3 seats, 7 questions every 10 days.

For many, these contradictions raise important democratic issues.

“The solution is simple: reform the voting system. Unfortunately this did not happen in the previous government, a broken promise. […] Now, in sharing speaking time, in sharing budgets, in all the discussions I have had with my vis-à-vis, I have never used the argument of vote percentage: why? Because it doesn’t count unfortunately. “In practice, in rules, in precedents, what is considered good or bad is the number of MNAs,” explained Mr Leduc.

At the end of the debate, some questioned the solidarity of the QS for the PQ.

“We want to bring different oppositions together in this showdown with Mr Simon Jolin-Barrett […]. Certainly the Parti Québécois has a little more ambitious demands, with respect to their caucus, which has become much smaller than it is,” Mr. Leduc said.

The parliamentary leader also recalled that his political party is no stranger to the situation faced by the PQ.

“If we take for example the task assigned to us when we were three deputies, remember that in 2014 we had part of this budget together with François David, Amir Qadir and Manon Massey. Questions. All things considered, the Parti Québécois is doing very well this year. “This is a party that has never had such a budget and so many questions with three deputies,” said Mr. Leduc said.

There were also lively exchanges between Mr Leduc and PQ leader Mr St-Pierre Plamondon.