The health leads the LIBERALS

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Francois Legault

Patrick Bellerose

Saturday, 3 march, 2018 00:00

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The voting intentions for the liberals to reach their lowest score since the election of the government Couillard, while the CAQ continues in the head, reveals a survey Light.

The LIBERALS will now get 26 % of support, compared to 37% for the CAQ. The two parties have each lost two percentage points compared to the last stroke of the probe, in January last.

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Philippe Couillard

The president of the company, Light note a decline in voting intentions in the long term for the liberals. In the 2014 elections, the LIBERALS had obtained 42 % of the vote and, in December, the party was reaping still for 32 % of the respondents.

“The record of health is the one who leads the vote for the government “, analysis Jean-Marc Léger, who also surveyed Quebecers on the subject.

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Manon Massé

The trend is slightly reversed for the PQ, which climbs two points to get 22 %. Québec solidaire, to him, is still at 9 %.

“It is a trend that continues for the liberal Party [of Québec], and for the PQ, while the CAQ, this is the first time that he goes down for several months,” says Jean-Marc Léger.

The CAQ in a good position

The troops of François Legault, however, are the favorites in all the age groups of voters and well ahead in the lead in voting intentions among francophones, to 42 %. “What is certain is that the government would be caquiste,” says Jean-Marc Léger. But the echo sounder can not say if this would be a minority government or a majority.

The level of dissatisfaction with the government, 71 %, also benefit from the CAQ, which is seen as the party that best represents the change by a majority of voters.

More, to 7 %, the level of undecided voters is low, ” remarked the president of the firm Lightweight. “People begin to form an opinion quite accurate,” notes Jean-Marc Léger.

Effect Hivon ?

The firm Leger has also surveyed the opinion of Quebecers about the rumors surrounding the politics of several public figures, in view of the elections of next October.

Mario Dumont (45 %), Pierre Karl Péladeau (41 %), Alexandre Taillefer (39 %) and Régis Labeaume (31 %) are those that have received the most support from among the names submitted to the respondents.

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Jean-François Lisée

The appointment of Véronique Hivon for the position of vice-leader of the PQ could also benefit the troops pq members, while 44% of voters say that she is an asset to his party. To the same question, Jean-Martin Aussant gets 34 % approval.

The stroke of the probe, conducted for The Newspaper and the newspaper, le Devoir has been carried out in line with 993 Quebec from 26 February to 1 march 2018. The results were then weighted to ensure a representative sample.

The survey

If a provincial election were held today, for which political party would you intend to vote ? Would it be for…

• CAQ: 37 %

• LIBERALS: 26 %

• PQ: 22 %

• QS: 9 %

• Conservative party of Quebec: 2%

• NPDQ: 2%

• The green party of Quebec: 1%

According to you, which of the party leaders in the provincial would make the best premier of Québec ?

• François Legault: 27 %

• Philippe Couillard: 15 %

• Jean-François Lisée: 14 %

• Manon Massé: 6 %

Working Conditions: the Quebecers support the nurses

The folder of the working conditions of nurses is making a lot of noise in recent weeks and they have the support of Quebecers.

According to Lightweight, 93 % of respondents believe that improving the network of health better working conditions of nurses. Their principal union, the FIQ, argues precisely for the creation of a nurse – patient ratio that would avoid the overload of work.

According to you, to enhance the health network in Quebec, it is necessary to improve the working conditions of…

• Nurses: 93 %

• Family physicians: 63 %

• Medical specialists: 40 %

Difficult mandate: the minister Barrette highly unpopular

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Gaétan Barrette

The Quebec judge severely the work of the minister of Health, Gaétan Barrette.

In fact, 66 % of respondents believe that the minister has done “a poor job” over the past three years, compared to 19 % who consider his tenure favorably. Another 15% of respondents did not know or refused to answer.

Moreover, 44 % of Quebecers say that the presence of a doctor at the head of the health care network is a disadvantage.

Do you believe that the minister of Health has done a good or a bad job over the last three years ?

• Good work: 19 %

• Bad work: 66 %

METHODOLOGY

Web-based survey ♦ from 26 February to 1 march 2018 ♦ 993 Quebec, who are at least 18 years of age or more and having the right to vote in Quebec ♦ using data from the 2016 census, the results have been statistically weighted according to age, sex, native language, region, and level of education in order to ensure a representative sample of the population. ♦ Weighting and margin of error: for comparison purposes, a probability sample of 993 respondents would have a margin of error of + or – 3.1%, 19 times out of 20.