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Quebec Premier François Legault is rejecting calls for electoral reform from opposition parties whose share of the popular vote in Monday's election failed to translate into a corresponding number of seats.
"The disproportion between the popular vote and the number of seats is historic and it is very problematic for democracy in Quebec," PQ Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon told reporters Tuesday in Boucherville, Que. "There is no electoral system that is perfect. There are advantages and disadvantages to each electoral system," he told reporters in St-François-de-l’Île-d’Orléans, northeast of Quebec City.
During his concession speech Monday, Québec solidaire spokesman Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois also called for electoral reform. The Conservative Party of Quebec received 12.9 per cent of the vote but won no seats. During his speech to supporters on Monday, party leader Éric Duhaime also described the results as a"distortion."
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