Crisis in the Bloc quebecois: “I do not understand why she remains there” – Gilles Duceppe

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Wednesday, 28 February 2018 15:12

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Before the departure of seven members of the Bloc québécois, the former party leader Gilles Duceppe believes it is time for the current leader Martine Ouellet to admit defeat and consider them to withdraw.

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“I’ve never seen such a thing. When there are 70% of the members of a caucus who say that no longer recognise themselves in the head, usually, one should not make denial, one must say “It is no longer my place”, said Mr. Duceppe, on the waves of LCN.

For Mr. Duceppe, the decision of these seven members of parliament will not change anything in their work in Parliament. “It doesn’t change their status, they were independent mps, the Block is not recognized as a party,” he explains.

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“I don’t understand why she is still there when one is not able to do a minimum of consensus in his caucus,” says the ex-chief. “The wise decision would be for her to leave,” he said. Because she is said to have reason, but in life, it takes more than being right, it is necessary that the people realize this.”

Not wanting to do analysis on the direction of Ms. Ouellet, he argued that, for the moment, nothing was working. “When there are 70 % of people in an organization, in any organization, who say it doesn’t, at this time, we said, it doesn’t work”, he insists.

The ex-chief bloquiste is not willing to say that this is the end of the party. “The conservatives were two in 1993, everyone said that it was finished”, he exemplified.

However, if Martine Ouellet decides to remain, the party’s future is at risk, according to Mr. Duceppe. He believes that it will be up to members to decide. “We will see what they will do,” he concludes.