Why is François Legault so testy? Maybe because his own success has remade Quebec politics
Quebec voters go to the polls on Oct. 3 in a general election that seems destined to be a cakewalk for the incumbent premier, François Legault. Various polls suggest his Coalition Avenir Québec will win around 90 of the 125 seats in the National Assembly, and could take as many as 105.
It’s odd behaviour for a party leader who has consistently been the province’s most popular, and who, barring a last-minute upset, is on the verge of increasing his majority . It’s impossible to know what’s going on in the Premier’s mind, but it’s a good guess that he’s feeling pressure on multiple fronts in an election that is a punctuation mark on the evolution of Quebec politics since the 1995 referendum.
But boy how things have changed in Quebec. For most of its modern history, the province had a two-party system built on the federalist/separatist dynamic – Liberal versus Parti Québécois. To decide how to vote, all voters had to do was decide where they stood on Quebec’s place in of Canada.
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