Quebec election: Legault leads despite ‘catastrophic’ campaign as Oct. 3 vote looms
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“They are lucky, because they started with an enormous lead,” Giasson said of the CAQ, “but it’s good that the campaign isn’t longer.” Poll aggregator website QC125.com projects the possibility of a CAQ majority at over 99 per cent, even as the party’s polling numbers have slowly dropped below 40 per cent. The Liberals, Quebec solidaire, the Conservatives and the Parti Quebecois are all polling at around 14 to 17 per cent.
The experts agreed that the most interesting battle is the one for official Opposition in a province where, before Legault’s Coalition Avenir Quebec arrived on the scene in 2011, elections were for decades two-party battles between the Liberals and the PQ. “There are some left-wing parties, right-wing parties and so there are debates that force the voter to think about the different propositions and to position themselves,” she said.
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