The Bloc québécois has believed until the end

Picture Of Pierre-Alexandre Maltais
The defeated candidate Marc Maltais.

Pierre-Alexandre Maltais

Tuesday, 24 October, 2017 01:14

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The Bloc québécois is believed to have found the right candidate in Marc Maltais to delight the county of Lac-Saint-Jean, but the discourse of regionalism of the ex-labour leader has not convinced voters.

For the Block, it is a hard blow, since the election of Marc Maltais, would have allowed the formation of Martine Ouellet to get closer to the official party status on parliament Hill.

“The Block was away in Lac-Saint-Jean. It was the fourth. It has heated so much that in the beginning of the evening, Marc Maltais led here, in Lac-Saint-Jean “, launched the leader of the Bloc, who was on site at the rally held at Alma, to follow the election night.

The applicant wished to congratulate Richard Hébert for his victory, ending his speech by quoting the famous “next time” of René Lévesque.

THE PCC DROPPED

On the side of the conservatives, Rémy Leclerc, who insisted throughout the campaign that his party was the only one to oppose the proposed legalisation of marijuana, has never really been in the race.

The former right-arm of Denis Lebel has harvested about 25 % of the vote, compared to a score of 33 % for its predecessor two years ago.

For its part, the candidate of the New democratic Party (NDP) Gisèle Dallaire could not do better than a fourth place (11,8 %), who had yet heated the mp outbound at the last general election in 2015, ending just behind Denis Lebel.

The candidate of the green Party, Yves Laporte, could not do better than a measly 1.3 per cent.

A little more than 38 % of the electorate exercised their right to vote during this partial.